Hellgate Prison

> "*Some have said that a week behind the bars of Hellgate Prison is like a decade in hell itself. Well, we try*"
> ― Warden Robert L. Strickland, Hellgate Prison queue video
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## Location information

### Inhabitants

Blitzkrieg Brothers
Candy & Peppermint
Chipper & Chainsaw
Floyd Mercer (formerly)
The Gladiator
Guards
The Hounds
Kira
The Network
The Plague
Prisoners
Red and the Rum Runners
Robert L. Strickland (formerly)
Shikyo
Stanley R. Rails

### Visitors

Jack the Clown (presumably)

**Hellgate Prison‏‎** is a recurring location in *Halloween Horror Nights*.

## Description

Hellgate Prison is a penitentiary located in an unidentified part of the United States of America.

### Features

* **Cellblock**:
* **Execution Room**: The execution room utilized the painful electric chair "Old Smokey".
* **Incinerator Room**:
* **Infirmary**:
* **Loading Dock**:
* **Metal Shop**:
* **Warden's Office**:
* **Weight Room**:
* **Visitors Area**:

## History

### Background

#### Origins

Hellgate Prison was an active penitentiary during the 1950s. Run by Warden Robert L. Strickland, a man with 30 years of experience as a warden, the prison was notorious for its brutality and keeping its prisoners in subhuman conditions. Strickland regularly executed prisoners with the painful electric chair "Old Smokey", while recording the deaths to watch.

On the October 13th of 1955, a criminal with a life-sentence named Stanley R. Rails was transferred from Alcatraz island Hellgate Prison. By 1956, Warden Strickland had executed fifty inmates of Hellgate Prison and caused Hellgate to supposedly become more infamous than Alcatraz.

#### RUN

At some point (supposedly in the 1980s), Hellgate Prison was used by a business called "The Network" for their TV program "RUN". RUN was a gameshow in-which people would be chased by murderers and assassins through Hellgate Prison on live TV. The murderers employed would come from different nations, have gimmicks, and compete to try and rack up the nighest number of kills. Amongst the murders employed were: Chipper & Chainsaw from Canada, "The Plague" from Brazil who dressed in hazmat suits, the Twins from Egypt, Red and the Rum Runners, the candy-themed Candy & Peppermint from the "Corporate States of America", the electricity using "Blitzkrieg Brothers" from Germany, "The Hounds" from Russia, "The Gladiator" from Italy, along with stereotypical Japanese assassins Kira and Shikyo.

The later history of the Network's "Run" programming is unknown.

#### Rat Run

At some point (possibly around 2005), Hellgate Prison was seemingly used by the undead murderous clown Jack Schmidt AKA Jack the Clown. Jack used Hellgate Prison for a "Haunted maze" dubbed "Rat Run".

#### Floyd Mercer

Hellgate Prison might have become an active penitentiary at some point. At some point, a man named Floyd Mercer was incarcerated in Hellgate Prison after being framed for the murder of his friend Benny Hamilton by the powerful entity, Lady Luck. Fearing Lady Luck coming for him, Floyd Mercer eventually faked insanity in-order to be transferred from Hellgate to the *Shadybrook Rest Home and Sanitarium*, before said facility was closed.

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Halloween Horror Nights XIV

##### Hellgate Prison

This haunted house revolved around the Hellgate riot.

#### Rat Run

A banner with different food options had the Hellgate Prison logo on it. This along with other prison signs seemed to imply that Rat Run took place within Hellgate Prison.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 21

In the backstory of this event, Floyd Mercer was a former inmate of Hellgate before being transferred to Shadybrook.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 25

##### RUN: Blood, Sweat and Fears

This haunted house took place in Hellgate Prison.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 30

##### Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland

A portion of the Hellgate Prison haunted house was recreated here.

#### Halloween Horror Nights Tribute Store

In 2021, Hellgate was mentioned on a criminal profile of Stanley R. Rails from the *Hellgate Prison* haunted house.

### In other media

#### Legendary Truth the Collective Case Investigation: Boris Shuster

One track had a news report talking about the tourists scheduled to go on a tour of Hellgate Prison, alluding to the events of the Hellgate Prison haunted house.

## Trivia

* The Hellgate Prison haunted house got a spiritual successor in the form of *Hellblock Horror*. This attraction revolved around a secret prison which used an Interdimensional Core to imprison various paranormal beings. The map was identical to that of Hellgate Prison, with the words "*Prepared by L. Strickland".*
* Warden Strickland's electric chair "Old Smokey" has made cameos in various Halloween Horror Nights attractions.
* Hellgate's appearance in *Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland* may imply that the penitentiary is located within the vicinity of Carey, Ohio.
* RUN shares its name with the business of Jack the Clown's murderous brother Eddie.
* Depending on the cast of "Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland", a Dog of War from *Havoc: Dogs of War* could pop out in the finale.

## External links

* *Hellgate Prison Correctional Facility on the Halloween Horror Nights Wiki.*