Surviving America's BLOODIEST Prison System: How A Virginia State Inmate Became A Stone-Cold KILLER

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

True Crime

4.3 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 167 minutes

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In this gripping, unfiltered interview, Banky Pound shares the raw truth about surviving 33 years in some of Virginia's most dangerous prisons. From witnessing murders on his first day to navigating the brutal inmate hierarchy and corrupt prison systems, Banky opens up about what it really takes to make it out alive. Raised in Washington D.C. during the 70s and 80s, Banky fell into a life of armed robbery as a teenager. A botched robbery led to a devastating sentence: life plus 100+ years. What followed was decades of violence, betrayal, and survival behind bars — including building a prison hustle, dealing with systemic racism, and the emotional toll of incarceration. Now free, Banky is using his story to uplift others and steer young people away from the same path. This is one of the wildest, most eye-opening prison stories ever told. Go Support Banky! IG: https://www.instagram.com/bankypound/ YouTube: @bankypound1932 This Episode Is #Sponsored By The Following: HIMS! Start your FREE online visit today at https://hims.com/connect for your personalized ED treatment options! BaySmokes! To get your free sample just head to https://baysmokes.com/pages/free-thca-flower-gram-sample/theconnect Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's no guarantee when you go in, you're coming out. I seen dudes die on the first day. I seen dudes die on the day before they got out of prison. They have a coat on like this with no shirt on and a knife sticking out this way, knife sticking out that way. As I'm walking to myself in my mind, I'm already knowing I'm going to kill you. My Bethlehem is like 13, 14 years long. Thick, rusty steel came off the fence. I just pulled it out and I just came behind him and
0:24.9	I just hit him right in the back. When you walk out of that cell, you got to be ready to kill
0:30.4	or to be killed. Banky Pound has the wildest prison stories ever told on this podcast.
0:36.2	He grew up in Washington, D.C. in the
0:37.9	1970s and 80s and became a stick-up kid while he was still in high school, robbing pimps,
0:42.8	drug dealers, and businesses at gunpoint throughout Maryland and Virginia. After a robbery gone
0:47.6	wrong, where his co-defended shot and killed a man, Bankey got slammed with hundreds of years in prison.
0:53.3	That's how they do folks in the South.
0:54.9	After witnessing a brutal murder of a fellow inmate his first week in prison, Banky knew that he
0:59.9	needed to become an animal. For the next 33 years, he never left his cell without a shank.
1:05.1	You are about to hear some of the craziest stories of prison survival. So grimy and brutal,
1:10.2	you could hardly believe conditions
1:11.4	like these still exist in America. A bankie survived through the riots, the stabbings, and the murder
1:16.4	cases, and in 2020, he made parole. Now he's got one of the best prison YouTube channels on the
1:21.5	internet. Check him out. He's all over the place, Banky Pound. And head over to Patreon for a bonus
1:26.1	chat with Banky. Patreon.com slash the Connect show.
1:30.2	Without further ado, this one is heart stopping.
1:33.2	My friend, Banky Pound, right here on the Connect with Johnny Mitchell.
1:37.9	People don't want you around them when they know you'll produce violence.
1:41.9	You got to smash him because that is the message that sent
1:46.0	to everybody else. And when he went to get up,
1:47.9	I hit him again. It cut my whole hand
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