BC PEN-The Stone Cage 1983

This show is a repeat of a 1983 show I did with Rae Corelli about the demise of the BC Penitentiary. There are some moving accounts from ex-cons about their time in this dungeon.
This program was repackaged as part of a Pacific Report update in 1986 when they made it into condos.

[@jordanlineger-nd5gz]

RIP - Fitz , stumbled on this old video and saw an old friend from years ago.

[@xmichaelwood]

Thanks for posting!!! Fascinated tonight by everything BC PEN!

[@johnnyk.2911]

Did a "scared straight" tour of this prison in my early teens...won't forget it.

[@chrisrengland]

I grew up in the housing development that was being built in this report. I can't begin to imagine how big a contrast my life growing up there was to the lives of those who had been living there 15 years earlier. Thanks for posting!

[@honkie6367]

i spent 2 and half years there in the early 70's.it was a different place compared to the outside.My issued number was 5719 which i'll never forget.

[@TheSpritz0]

What did you get locked up for? I used to pass this place day after day on my way to work on Kingsway!

[@robertpotter1265]

Carl Hansen I was there 1973 number 7469. When to Matsqui got out 1978. Lots of fun there. O Mary Steinhauser was my Classification officer and you know what happen to her. Such a great Lady. And a wonderful Advocat for us too. Hope you did well in life i was 18 when i went to the Pen 24 when i got. Now iam 64 and happy.

[@bob-qz9ey]

In Haney Correctional (ages 16 to 19, solitary was far more draconian; a 6x8 cell with no light, no view through steel door, and no mattress. For night only, a blanket; for meals, 8 slices of bread and a steel cup of water twice a day, though every third day a regular meal was provided. A different era, unlike the wimpy jails now commonplace.

[@donnybrook9890]

💜

[@chrisburns5691]

i went through there years ago, it had been long abandoned, we stumbled across it and wondered around in it. creepy place, think it is all gone now.

[@richardwilson7307]

Was also in the “Old B C Pen”, in the middle 70’s,was there for the five day riot,there was eleven “Clark Parker’s”in east wing when the riot happened

[@YoutubeCrittic]

Went there for a visit with my PO in 77..on my way to Oakalla.

[@troyelliott390]

Sharing

[@leniszameit]

before pen torn down. ppl were able to tour it. i was one of the ppl who had a visit to the pen. i remember walls bashed it. toilets n sinks ripped from walls. broken or still hanging from pipes.quite an eyeopener. i knew former inmates from pen who had reformed n went straight

[@richardwilson7307]

Was in Haney for 29 months

[@richardwilson7307]

Haney correctional was from 15 to 23,when you turned 24 they then shipped you to OKALLA

[@curtisskowaisa972]

The most dangerous person on this plant !!! The one with nothing to loose !!! He or She !!!

[@clintongrandy7640]

Silence of the Lambs

[@dungeonfrek]

Poor man is haunted for life.