The Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Recreation Yard (September 10, 1978)

[@ronthatus]

I actually drove past the Atlanta penitentiary 2 weeks ago. Hadn’t been over that way in awhile. Grandparents on both side of the family lived right around the corner from there. I remember as a child going to the McDonald’s that sat right across the street from it

[@lakishafreeman2783]

It's so scary looking now they building condo in the hoof by the federal prison other there

[@Flashbang80701]

A very good friend of mine his dad was in there in the late 60s I believe before being locked up for life in 1974 . His name was Billy Sunday birt from winder Georgia. Rip Billy.

[@brianmcghee3597]

Dixie Mafia!

[@zairedravis2747]

Wow I wasn't born than 1978 am from Atlanta and am always seeing things like this

[@Djd271]

Those men would work todays men

[@davidfridley6625]

when i was a kid i live right behind the prison Lakewood im in forest park now not far from the prison

[@86wasdayr2]

Old rusty iron weights, thm cattz still got thm muscles

[@DavidJohnson-ug3wr]

Them the best weights

[@Trp510]

Why would rust make them any less effective?

[@MrGhost9]

We call those dead man weights

[@Hopealliswell6054]

Old rusty weights weigh the same as brand new ones.

[@KillaKk-r1q]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@angelbelmont2190]

He mentioned willie free I wonder if it's the same from the book stories from the old yard 🤔

[@deanthonybishop7197]

Real man stuff on that yard

[@TempeSoldier123]

So being in prison is real man stuff to you?

[@greaterthansolomon-vv4ho]

meanwhile they got enslaved by 160 pound whites

[@jamesp.6968]

Thats my friends grandpa OG FISH GREASE!!! MAAAN!

[@Joe-wo7rg]

Old skool

[@pwhales264]

did Og fish get out of prison?

[@kelceyallen433]

Atlanta U.S.P. right off Moreland Ave. YEP

[@rickymurphy9979]

Off McDonough

[@tway4854]

I grew up right across the street from here

[@ArnoldRothstien-g2i]

4 Seasons!!

[@NewWorldOrder19]

@@ArnoldRothstien-g2inah thomasville

[@TommyTomTompkins]

Did you used to wake up and do the ATL stomp?

[@ArnoldRothstien-g2i]

​@@TommyTomTompkinsAlto Shuffle was before the ATL stomp!!

[@TommyTomTompkins]

@@ArnoldRothstien-g2iyeah, and the jitterbug was before that.

[@7Moonbeam6]

How’s everyone’s back doing these days.

[@cnp215]

Where the guy they called DC FLY at? The government named him the leader of the DC Blacks after Cadillac got killed in Usp Marion in 1982..

[@BRIANDER100]

it's not low-security

[@kusc717]

Seems smart to have inmates with matches and glass bottles on the yard.

[@soul2soul4]

Different times.

[@TheOnlyCoop]

Much different time and inmate. These prisoners were gangsters but also thinkers. The petty thieves that would have taken advantage of those things would have been handled by the other inmates.

[@gradymatthews1381]

Proof.

[@martyc4599]

Interesting then to observe white and black inmates cooperating and supporting each other. Is there a lesson to learnt there? What is happening there with the dynamic that doesnt work today? Ive never been in trouble with the law or in Jail so wouldnt know.

[@Shesthrilled1860]

The biggest and strongest are the Gay Men.

[@UpDrop66]

Lmfao it be like that them the scary ones 😂

[@greaterthansolomon-vv4ho]

i knew a 6’3 300 pound gay man

[@dg2344]

I could be wrong but prisoners today bigger with no weights

[@Trp510]

No state was bigger than the guys in the California prison system.. if you watch videos from the same time in California, you’ll see night and day

[@raramurray9187]

i think your wrong lol

[@MrGhost9]

It’s the food the food makes them bigger

[@3rdward713]

@@Trp510and in Texas

[@Trp510]

@@3rdward713 cal still had better bodies that exceeded Texas. there was a thing back in the day called the “ California prison body” you could tell a knigga was from cal just from his physique, that’s how much it dominated over others

[@brimac58]

They took the weights away from these animals.

[@tg3grant704]

Yep but calisthenics is better than weight lifting actually makes them stronger than the weights

[@blacksheep9278]

@@tg3grant704how

[@jamespalmer9178]

That's not a nice thing to say about these men . When Your great government is the world biggest devil and criminal that these men could ever be .😊

[@ZONE4SOUFWESTATLGANGSTAFATT]

loudest one in the room the softest. always a fact

[@northpole8318]

They’re lifting and pumping each other up it’s a competition 🙃🙃🙃

[@TempeSoldier123]

Cap.

[@surfNturf904]

Wonder what they think of they're LGBT grandsons

[@TempeSoldier123]

Maybe the same thing your grandparents think about you. Go brush those yellowish teeth, lose the bodyfat, get a career, and find a woman. You're a internet troll who hates himself.

[@carbine15thompson58]

This the 70s and I know it was worse in prison.So you know they were raping and extorting the weak men.

[@beforeyourimmigrants8471]

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