The very thought of prison is horrible enough to keep most people on this side of the law. Being deprived of freedom of movement and the ability to see loved ones, ruining career prospects, not to mention the risk of all kinds of attacks from hardened criminals - what could be worse?
Is that to be in the most terrible prison in the world, in comparison with which other prisons seem like a summer camp.
10. Prison "Black Dolphin", Russia
This special regime penal colony contains the most dangerous criminals from all over Russia, including cannibals, terrorists and pedophiles.
The inmates sleep with the lights on and are constantly under video surveillance. And when they leave the cell under escort, a dog handler with a dog follows them. The cells are small - 4.5 m², and the room is a cage in a cage, since a steel grate separates people from windows and doors.
Whenever convicts walk through the corridors, they are blindfolded, which prevents them from remembering the prison plan, reducing the possibility of escape. The hands of convicts when moving are shackled behind their backs, and the head is lowered low - this is the so-called "swallow pose".
Even prisoners walk with their hands chained behind their backs.
This strategy has proven to be effective as there have been no shoots from the Black Dolphin yet.
9. Sante Correctional Facility, France
The only prison remaining within Paris is known for its harsh, if not brutal, prison conditions. Many prisoners committed suicide while serving their sentences in Santa. For example, in 1999, 124 prisoners were committed suicide.
Violence in this prison is so widespread that prisoners are only released from their cells for four hours a day.
There is a sad irony that the name “Santa” translates to “health”. It is given by the name of a nearby street.
8. Bangkwang Prison, Thailand
Located in Bangkok, this correctional facility is known as the "Bangkok Hilton" due to the screening of an Australian TV series starring Nicole Kidman.
The Thais themselves call this prison "Big Tiger", hinting that it devours its victims. It contains prisoners on death row or long terms, so few of them ever come out of the jaws of the Big Tiger.
Torture is practiced in Bangkwang, and convicts (25 people or more) are kept in small cells 6 x 4 meters. They feed the criminals once a day, and they have to buy the rest of the food with money given by relatives or friends. Outbreaks of cholera, diphtheria, malaria and other diseases often occur in the Big Tiger due to overcrowding, lack of adequate sanitary and hygienic conditions and poor nutrition.
7. Prison La Sabaneta, Venezuela
The worst prisons in the world are usually overcrowded with prisoners.But even among them, La Sabaneta stands alone. The building, designed for just 700 people, holds more than 3,700 inmates. At the same time, the prison has an acute shortage of staff, and there is only 1 guard for every 150 prisoners.
There is no proper sanitation, plastic bags are used as toilets, prisoners are washed from a shared bucket of water, and the drinking water is teeming with parasites and bacteria.
Violence in La Sabaneta is as much a part of daily life as eating or sleeping. Rape and even beheading are common.
Most of the prisoners sleep in cramped hammocks that are located in narrow corridors and even on the roof of the prison. Only gang leaders with money and power can afford basic services such as medical care and their own camera with fan and TV.
6. La Modelo, Colombia
In this notorious prison, inmates have easy access to weapons and even grenades, and bloodshed is common. One of the worst examples is the death of 25 prisoners killed on April 27, 2000.
In terms of political views, the prisoners at La Modelo are divided into left and right. Accordingly, the prison is divided into two sectors, between which there is a war. Moreover, the right-wing sector even has its own prison in which the guilty are imprisoned.
5. Muhanga prison, Rwanda
This is the most overcrowded prison in the world. About 7,000 inmates are in an institution for only 400 people... However, in a country like Rwanda, where half a million people have been killed by genocide, prison conditions are not the focus of most citizens.
Many people detained in Muhanga prison have no choice but to stand all day, and sleep tightly huddled together due to chronic lack of free space. The overcrowding is so great that many prisoners die of suffocation and illness before the day of release.
Like most of the world's most horrible prisons, there is virtually no sanitation in Muhang. Due to the fact that the floor is covered with a layer of sewage, many prisoners develop leg infections, which are treated dramatically - amputation of the feet or toes.
4. Guantanamo, USA
If the other worst prisons at least do not pretend to respect human rights, then the hypocrisy of the "world bulwark of democracy" was clearly manifested when the world learned about the atrocities at Guantanomo prison.
There are held prisoners with combatant status and are subject to trial by a special military commission. Most of them are Muslims. Many of the prisoners have not been formally charged.
According to the testimony of the prisoners themselves, as well as human rights organizations, various tortures are used against prisoners at Guantanamo, including sleep deprivation, prolonged listening to music at maximum volume, beatings, and imitation of drowning.
3. ADX Florence, USA
This maximum security correctional facility is a "cleaner version of Hell." Moreover, such an epithet was invented not by journalists, but by the former head of the prison.
It is designed to hold the most dangerous criminals, many of whom are in round-the-clock solitary confinement in cells 2.1 × 3.7 m.They spend 23 hours in cells, and spend the remaining hour in a separate room where you can walk or exercise ...
The table, bunk and chair in the ADX Florence cells are made of cast concrete. However, they have such "luxury" as a toilet bowl and a sink without a tap. For exemplary behavior, prisoners can be transferred to a cell with a TV, radio and a mirror made of polished steel bolted to the wall.
2. Tadmor prison, Syria
The prison, located in the Syrian city of Tadmor, has a reputation for being one of the worst prisons in the world. The ill-treatment, torture and inhuman treatment within the walls of this prison have made it infamous throughout the world.
The most shocking incident in Tadmor prison occurred on June 27, 1980, when, on the orders of the military leader Rifat Assad, soldiers killed approximately 500 prisoners at a time. It was revenge for the attempt on the life of the Muslim Brotherhood on the Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
The Syrian poet Faraj Berakdar, who served a five-year sentence in Tadmor prison, called it "the kingdom of death and madness."
1. Camp 22, North Korea
There are approximately 50,000 inmates inside Camp 22, most of them sentenced to life in prison for criticizing the North Korean government. What's even more shocking is that Camp 22 is just one of 30 such concentration camps operating in North Korea.
Conditions in the world's worst prison have clearly been made as dire as possible. Malnutrition is the norm, and all prisoners must work and are essentially slaves to the state, doing hard physical work for free.
There are even reports of human experimentation being practiced in political prison camps in North Korea. In one of the official UN reports on the violation of human rights in the DPRK, the situation with the camps in the country was compared to the crimes of the Nazis in Germany during World War II.
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