From the infamous Guantanamo Bay to the terrifying Black Dolphin Prison of Russia, here are ten
of the most dangerous prisons and the horrors you won’t believe go on inside them!
10: Guantanamo Bay The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is arguably
the most famous prison belonging to the United States.
It's located on the Guantanamo Bay naval base in southeastern Cuba.
That’s right, this base in Cuba is actually under American control, though it’s complicated.
It's also a fairly new prison, with construction beginning only back in 2002.
In the 21st century, it’s been used as a secure facility to hold people that the United
States suspected were terrorists.
The US forces also placed confirmed terrorists captured outside the country, in places like
Afghanistan and Iraq, into the prison there.
The reason Guantanamo Bay became so famous is that it's dangerous.
There was a huge controversy after it came to light that many of the people being detained
inside the camp were not being given proper human rights considerations, with some going
as far as to say the staff at Guantanamo Bay were violating Geneva Conventions because
they were torturing and abusing the detainees.
One of the ways that Guantanamo Bay managed to be such a horrifying place is that it wasn't
technically built on United States soil.
President George W. Bush’s administration said that the prison was not obliged to grant
constitutional protection of the prisoners because they were not in US territory and
because the Geneva Conventions did not apply to unlawful enemy combatants.
Nonetheless, the US Supreme Court declared that Guantanamo was indeed in violation of
the Geneva Convention.
But this didn't really stop anything from happening.
Guantanamo Bay just got even more secretive.
For all we know, they could still be torturing people as we speak.
It's true that Barack Obama pledged to close the facility in 2009, but in 2018, Donald
Trump signed an order to keep the camp open indefinitely.
Who knows what will happen next?
9: Bang Kwang Prison Bang Kwang Prison in Thailand may just be
the most brutal prison on the planet.
The conditions are harsh and often deadly.
The prison itself is located on the outside of Bangkok, built between the years 1927 and
1931.
It was meant to be a prison for holding the worst kind of offenders in the country.
The inmates here are those who have been sentenced to stay in prison for upwards of 25 years.
It's also filled with prisoners waiting to be executed.
But before prisoners can be executed, they often die at the hands of other inmates or
go completely insane.
Some reports say that for the first three months that an inmate is imprisoned here,
they are chained with leg irons.
This stops them from having the ability to move very well, and so they have to shuffle
around with chains around their ankles.
Those who have been given the death sentence are stuffed into leg irons and never let out.
And they don't die in a very pleasant way either, as the death sentence is usually carried
out by a firing squad.
One of the weirder things about the prison is the food system.
Nothing is free here, and everything except for just a meager bowl of rice and a bit of
vegetables must be purchased.
This enables wealthy prisoners to employ other prisoners as their servants, and it's created
a kind of bizarre hierarchy inside the prison.
Throughout Asia, Bang Kwang Prison is known as “Big Tiger.”
Ironically, in some places in the West, it’s been called the Bangkok Hilton.
8: Alcatraz Alcatraz is known for a lot of things, primarily
for how hard it was to escape.
But did you know that Alcatraz was also a seriously dangerous place to be locked up?
According to Alcatraz History, one of the things that the inmates hated the most about
staying on this island prison was the rule of silence.
Inmates were prohibited from speaking to one another except during meals and recreation
up until the 1930s.
Even a single violation, meaning if an inmate spoke a single word, they could be harshly
punished.
Throughout the history of Alcatraz, which wasn't actually that long (it only functioned
for 29 years), eight people were murdered by other inmates.
Five men died by their own hands, while 15 perished from illnesses.
That equals 28 unnecessary deaths, or about one every year.
This number may not seem that shocking except when you realize that there were only about
250 prisoners at a single time.
In total, 1545 men were imprisoned on the island, and while only 8 were murdered, there
were definitely other acts of violence.
For example, at least 36 prisoners tried to escape Alcatraz.
Two inmates successfully made it off the island and were captured, seven were shot to death
trying to escape, two drowned in the water between the island and the mainland, and five
inmates were missing and never found, presumed dead and swept away into the ocean.
7: Urumqi No. 3 Detention Centre The Urumqi No. 3 Detention Centre in China
has been described as the largest prison in the country and a place that is worse than
hell.
I'm talking torture, electrocution, brain washing, and disturbing incidents with cattle
prods.
According to some recent reports, the prison is currently filled with thousands of Uighur
Muslims, with estimates that at least 10,000 people have been subject to some degree of
torture.
To give you an idea of how huge this detention center is, it's over 220 acres.
That's twice the size of Vatican City.
Satellite images have shown a dramatic increase in size since 2019, with nearly a mile of
buildings added to the detention facility.
International Amnesty released a report that described the center as a dystopian hellscape.
One of the teachers at the facility told reporters that people were tortured with iron chairs
and electric batons.
The prisoners here are forced to watch Chinese Communist Party history over and over as a
form of mind control.
The director of the center, Zhu Hongbin, actually came out and admitted that they control everything
the prisoners watch.
He also went on to say that the prisoners are “unbreakable,” and that they need
to be taught why it's bad to commit crimes.
But there are two different interpretations of this giant prison.
The Chinese say it's filled with murderers and thieves, while outside researchers claim
it's actually full of innocent people who have been detained for crimes such as attending
the wrong religious gathering or visiting the wrong country.
These innocent people are then tortured, manipulated, and robbed of their humanity.
What would you do if you were imprisoned for a crime you didn’t commit?
Would you try to escape?
Would you try to ride out your sentence?
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6: Sabaneta Prison When talking violence, there is almost no
worse place to be imprisoned than Venezuela.
Specifically, the Sabaneta Prison is one of the most murderous places in the entire world.
According to a recent report from the BBC, 16 prisoners were killed in one day of violence
in the western city of Maracaibo when fighting broke out in the prison between rival gangs.
But this was not gang violence like you see on American TV.
This was not a rerun of Oz.
The inmates in this case were beheaded, some of them had their limbs literally ripped off
their body, and it could be that some of the bodies were even bitten as though wild dogs
attacked them.
The minister of the prison, Iris Varela, said the violence came from an internal war raging
inside the jail.
The prison was extremely over-encumbered, with about 3700 inmates inside a building
designed to house only 700.
It was recently shut down, though it’s unclear exactly how Venezuela will maintain order
if its prisons are overcrowded and getting shuttered!
If you thought US prisons are bad, just wait until you hear these statistics.
First of all, Venezuela has one of the highest crime rates in the world.
The prison population is exploding out of control, and 80% of the prisons in Venezuela
are actually run by the inmates themselves, who are often armed with weapons and dramatically
outnumber the actual security forces.
At places like Sabaneta Prison, a violent death is almost guaranteed.
5: Black Dolphin Prison Black Dolphin Prison is considered the toughest
and hardest in all of Russia.
It's a high-security facility located on the border of Kazakhstan, known for harboring
the most brutal and dangerous criminals in Russia, including cannibals, terrorists, and
serial killers.
A prison Lieutenant recently told National Geographic that the only way to escape Black
Dolphin is by dying.
There are about 700 inmates locked up in the prison – but just listen to this.
The 700 inmates have killed about 3500 people collectively, or about five murders per prisoner.
That's a pretty terrifying rate.
The inmates here are imprisoned for life, like Vladimir Nikolayev, who is doing a full
life sentence in Black Dolphin for killing a man during a fight and then eating his corpse.
The prisoners here are kept under full surveillance 24 hours a day, each cell is locked inside
of a different secure cell, and guards check on the inmates every 15 minutes.
When prisoners are allowed to leave their cells, they must walk bent over at a 90-degree
angle with their eyes looking at the floor – and if they’re ever allowed outside,
they can only do so blindfolded.
In Black Dolphin, it's not the other inmates that will kill you, even though they would
probably really like to – instead, it’s the psychological torture that kills.
4: Columbia Correctional Institution The Columbia Correctional Institute is one
of the most dangerous prisons anywhere in America.
And since it's Florida, you know it's full of dangerous weirdos!
To prove the point, an inmate recently strangled his cellmate to death, then ripped out his
eyes, mutilated his dead body, and made a necklace out of the victim’s body parts
before heading off to the dining hall to eat breakfast.
This guy hasn’t yet been named, and he's only one of the hundreds of dangerous criminals
housed inside of the prison.
His victim was Larry Mark, 58 years old and in prison since 1981 for committing robbery
and murder.
The guy who killed him was apparently angry because Larry had been annoying him.
At this correctional institute, being annoying means getting your eyeballs pulled out of
your head.
But the day was even worse.
As if one violent murder wasn't enough, corrections officers said that earlier in the day before
the brutal slaying of Larry, there was another melee that erupted between two armed gangs.
Members of the Bloods and the Cutthroats got into a fight in which several men had their
throats slashed and their bodies filled with stab holes.
3: Kerobokan Bali Prison Bali is known for its sandy beaches, unparalleled
nature, and thousands of partying backpackers.
But just a few miles away from the whole food cafes and bars on the beach, there is a living
hell known as Kerobokan Bali Prison.
The facility was designed to hold 300 prisoners, though today there are over 1400 inside its
walls.
Many of the inmates sleep on hard floors in the blistering heat, so crowded that men are
forced to sleep in uncomfortable tangles.
To the locals, the prison is known as “Hotel K.”
The majority of the prisoners are drug offenders, people accused of using things like cannabis
and cocaine.
And they don't take foreigners coming to their island to use drugs very lightly.
There was an Australian convicted back in 2005 of smuggling cannabis into Bali, and
she was sentenced to spend 20 years in Kerobokan Prison, though she only actually served nine.
One of the most famous foreign prisoners to get stuck inside this hellhole was Ronnie
Ramsay, chef Gordan Ramsay’s brother.
He was caught in Bali with heroin and sentenced in 2007 to spend a bit of time in the prison.
But why is it so horrible?
Well, there aren't really any rules.
Prisoners are often found hanging in their cells, covered in vomit and flies.
The men all share gross squat toilets that are so poorly maintained that there is literal
human waste bubbling out of them.
Oh yeah, and it’s filled with rats.
2: Millhaven Institution The Millhaven Institute is one of the most
dangerous prisons anywhere in Canada.
It apparently used to be a place full of violence – but violence with rules.
David Rose, a convicted murderer, recently gave news reporters some insight on how the
violence in the institution used to play out.
According to David, who by the way is spending the rest of his life in prison, back in the
old days, inmates used to have a code of conduct.
They would fight and be violent with each other, but would also be respectful.
David says that in recent years, that code of conduct has collapsed and has made the
prison significantly more dangerous than it has ever been before.
According to him, none of the old rules apply to the new inmates.
And it's funny that he says this because there has been a recent 15% jump in violent assault
in the past three years alone.
In the last year, there were 15,330 federal offenders guilty of violent crimes in Canada,
with the most dangerous being housed in Millhaven.
As it appears, prison is actually getting worse and more dangerous, not better at rehabilitation,
even in Canada.
1: The Clink The term “the clink” refers to jail.
But what a lot of people don't know is that the Clink was a very real jail, the name of
a prison in the 14th century in England.
Nobody is exactly sure where the name came from, though some historians speculate that
the jail was called “clink” because of the sound made by the blacksmith's hammer
as it closed the irons around a person's wrists and ankles.
Others believe the Clink was named after the sound of the inmates clinking their drinking
cups against the bars.
In any case, the Clink was one of the worst prisons of all time.
It operated from between 1151 until the year 1780.
Because the jailers didn't make very much money, they were open to all kinds of bribes.
If you couldn't afford food or bedding from the jailers, you were forced to starve to
death and sleep on the floor.
In fact, the poorest of the prisoners were forced to beg through the iron bars that led
to the level of the street for anything the people passing by would give.
The result of this disgusting place was rampant disease and violence, with many of the prisoners
getting sick, being forced to eat rats, and dying pretty miserably.
Would you dare spend a night in one of these prisons?
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