West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, WV

10.11.08 - (CLICK UNDER VIDEO TO RIGHT TO WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY) We visited this ancient prison known for most of the years in operation as one of the Dept of Justice's Top 10 Most Violent Correctional Facilities. The rectangular complex covers 19 acres with an imposing and formidable 3 block long facade which belies the cramped, overcrowded and inhuman conditions for which the penitentiary became so infamous. It's cells were a mere 5x7ft and housed 3 men in each one with cells stacked four high in 10 separate blocks. These are just a few short video clips of the place. The Alamo Block housed the most dangerous criminals. SEE MY PICS AND MORE INFO AT http://www.yvonnesblog2008.blogspot.com/ LOOK DOWN LEFT HAND COLUMN FOR WV PENITENTIARY AND CLICK ON LINK TO GO DIRECTLY TO THE PICS.

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• Moundsville
• Prison
• WV
• Penitentiary
• ancient
• prison
• Dangerous
• men

[twilightfantic876]

i took the tour there it was awesome:)

[MerryGoRnd]

It sure was!!  Glad you got to see it also.

[ryuhyubusa]

cool footage thanks

[MerryGoRnd]

thank you for the compliment!....and for writing :)

[zeke6785]

ive been there on a school fieldtrip.......coolest place ever...well that and the tri allegheny insane asylum

[MerryGoRnd]

yes, it IS a great field trip! glad you got to see it and enjoyed it. it's very impressive. You've seen the Insane Asylum, too!? Wonderful! That's where I want to go next! Amazing to see and hear about these places. I can't imagine having to live in either one, can you!!?? And those were "the good old days"??? LOL Thx for writing! :)

[noellan57]

@fjgem33

i was an inmate there 1980-1983. i remember the scared straight program.

[flowerdance16]

i live down the road from the prison and i swear i have seen things in there after the tourist leave like shoadows and stuff ...its scary if u havent visted u should

[wsuguess]

i work their in the 80 ies they never tell you what really went on their

[CountryBuff08]

it's much more imposing at night.

[fjgem33]

It must be because I grew up around the corner from the old pen, but I don't think it's creepy. I have been in it several times. Working the haunted house-dungeons of horror, day tours, ghost hunts. Also, lol! Back in the Day(like 20 years ago) when I was in 6th and 7th grade there was a school program called scarred straight. We did a tour(while the inmates were in their) and then we went to the mound and had one on one conversations with 4 different inmates about how to avoid a life of crime

[evcsgirl811]

im going there next week! so excited! lol i already cant get to sleep if i think about it lol

[LiLchristain1]

mt brother went in there and the went in the surgar shack and things started to move and this was also on paranormal state because it is the scariest place on earth