Maximum Security | Inside Walpole State Prison | Court TV Full Documentary

🔵 Title: Maximum Security
🔵 Summary: Maximum Security takes us inside Walpole State Prison in Massachusetts - a facility that houses over 700 inmates, mostly repeat offenders convicted for a wide range of offenses (everything from drugs to multiple homicide). The documentary follows an 11-member team of corrections officers known as the Inter-Perimeter Security unit, or IPS. They attempt to impose order on a system that constantly threatens to collapse.

Starring: Bill Grossi, Johnny Bruce, Alex Rodriguez, Kenny DeOrsey, Steve Kennedy, Thomas McIntyre, Robert Delello, Luis Vega, Alexander Perkins II, Sue Hughs

🔵 Rating: TV-MA

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[floweringplumb]

My family knew a guard who worked at Walpole State Prison (Cedar Junction now) years ago. He mentioned that there was a prisoner who liked to work on small projects. He saw that we had an old mantle clock and said if it wasn't working, he would take the clock on his day shift to the prison to see if the prisoner could get it to work properly. When the clock was returned, it worked well and the outside had been re painted black with the trim having been painted gold. This clock at the time was probably 50 years or older so seeing it returned like new was a much appreciated surprise. We paid the guard a fee for the work and that fee was in whole or split with the prisoner. The guard knew that the project to work on the clock would be appreciated and something that the prisoner would welcome to pass time. I was given the clock as an adult and whenever I would wind the clock I would think about the prisoner in Walpole who gave the mantle clock a 2nd life.

[michaelwhalen]

My Brother worked at walpole state prison for 25 years . The stories that he told me terrified me to think he might one day never come home !! He retired after his 25 years and is happy that he never had any thing happen to him in that period of time .. Love you brother!

[lgarla]

My roomate at a Quincy, MA halfway house back in 2010 was a convicted murder who served 15 years at Walpole for manslaughter. I used to sleep with one eye open. Thank God I’m sober today.

[holdmyhalo]

My friend Marc worked here for 22 years, plus another ten in the system after that. I knew how bad it was, because he never talked about it. He retired last year, and passed away a month ago. When the guy at the end said their life expectancy is 55 years, he meant it. RIP Marc.

[moonandstars]

This documentary is 30yrs old! I used to visit my partner when they made this video. The visiting room was tense with the inmates. They would never look at each other in the eye. Looking at someone else's visitor was forbidden. My partner was a frequent flyer in the stay correction system since he was 17. He preferred to go to Walpole because he got his own cell. He had no problem doing his time at cedar junction. The outside of the prison from the street looks like a medieval castle with the wall they have. Cedar junction is a very dangerous place. I was glad when I didn't visit there any longer or any other prison. The town of Walpole is a beautiful place to live. DOC renamed Walpole State prison to cedar junction to appease the townspeople who didn't want their quaint beautiful town know for one of the most notorious prisons in Massachusetts. There's no rehabilitation of any sort in Massachusetts DOC prisons. They have a large turnover reoffenders.

[chadlandrum]

I appreciate older documentaries such as this. First of all, it's new to me. Also, it doesn't really matter when it was done; as long as it was well done.

[terryjohnson]

Thirty years ago I did my Christmas shopping at the Folsom prison inmates store. They did exceptional leather and wood work, paintings and even silver jewelry and the Christmas cards I sent were individually made by inmates.

[ShareHolder-gpil]

Prison content I've never seen that isn't a repost? Thank you!❤

[patriciastone]

About 50ish years ago my mother used to hold AA meetings there. She also held them at the Charles Street Jail and at Bridgewater Hospital way back then in the 60's and the 70's. As we got older she would answer our questions the best she could since we were little kids. But I always asked her what was it like being in jail and she always laughed. She loved what she did and never missed any of those meetings. Bless her big beautiful heart.🥰

[Everydayisbad]

born and raised near this prison and right when I saw this video I had to watch it, Driving by this prison my whole life (in my late 20s) It's actually crazy being able to finally see what it looks like on the inside and how they operate.

[KerryDSC]

I had a family member who was incarcerated at walpole in the early 80's, some of his stories are terrifying, the place was like the wild west back then, serious dudes.

[dungey]

In 2015 I spent 26 days inside a low security jail for theft & missing a court date. It sucked, I left unharmed & turned my life around & haven’t been back since.

[johnnywalker]

Like the way these Massachusetts guys talk. Very bottom line with no sugarcoating. They don't believe in wasting time.

[robertbuttlar]

My uncle spent years in and out of Walpole, Ive only heard stories. All of them unnerving.

[deejaydiabolic]

To stab someone and then throw human waste on them in hopes that it gets into the stab wound is devious and maniacal.

[Gene-XL]

I don’t know why this type of video fascinates me so much. I’m no criminal. The idea of prison terrifies me, but it’s cool to get a peek from a safe distance.

[Boyso]

As part of my job I make deliveries to Walpole
Prison, which is now called Cecar Junction, and it’s crazy that the place still looks the same as in this documentary which is obviously from the 90’s. That place is no joke. I always felt really uncomfortable walking around that place even with a couple guards escorting you.

[Solidd-Melb]

Sometimes we don't realize how special freedom is, to do whatever you want whenever you want.

[SlugCult]

"This is a stingahh. It can get watahh wicked hawwt"
Boston COs.😂

[Dennis-nmjm]

My sister worked at a lot of prison systems in Massachusetts Bridgewater Walpole Concord Shirley. She retired at 55 after 30 years.