MISSOURI STATE PENITENTIARY-PRISON AND GAS CHAMBER TOUR -JEFFERSON CITY, MO-EP27

We took a 3 hour guided tour through the Missouri State Penitentiary, Gas Chamber and Warden's house. This home is preserved and used privately for special events, but for the public, now has a prison museum in the basement. It was fascinating.

You will want to go on line and figure out which of the many tours will fill you needs, and then BOOK a reservation. Costs and times vary. They even have overnight tours!

The tour was given by one of the deputies that worked at the prison for 25 years, as well as one of the nurses that worked in the prison hospital.

For most of the years that the prison was operated, all of the prisoners had to walk in single file lines when moving around the facility, and had to maintain COMPLETE silence. No talking was ever allowed, and you could only speak to a guard if HE asked you a question.

The solitary confinement area was a nightmare. One individual, who managed to live to tell about it, was in total darkness (NOT EVEN A SLIVER OF LIGHT), in an 8’ x 10’ cell, without a bed, in suffocating heat in the summer, with ZERO ventilation, with no exercise, with 5 to 10 other inmates, all competing for the food bucket shoved into your cell once a day. You were all required to "SHARE" the cells waste bucket!!!

Sonny Liston was one of the two "famous" prisoners that spent time here. The most famous inmate, which we actually forgot to highlight in the video was James Earl Ray, WHO ESCAPED, and THEN went on to shoot Martin Luther King, Jr.

We had visited Alcatraz many years prior, and this place is 100 years OLDER! It made "The Rock" look like a Country Club!

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