How’s it going Youtube?
I’m your host Landon Dowlatsingh, and welcome back to another most amazing video.
Before we get started I want to know, what is something about prisons that scare you
the most?
Being imprisoned doesn’t sound appealing to anyone.
Especially when we find out that there are a lot of cruel and unusual punishments that
are carried out on the inmates on a daily basis.
So here are the top 10 worst prison punishments.
Starting us off in at number 10 with Sodomy.
This is a very common thing that occurs in prisons all over the world.
A lot of inmates are abused on a daily basis by other aggressive inmates or prison gangs
that are trying to gain power and control.
There are even some cases of prison guards abusing their authority and sodomizing the
inmates.
This is a cruel and unforgivable form of punishment that actually occurs a lot more than you would
think.
Hog tying and other forms of physical torture make it into number 9.
Hog tying looks like this, your wrists and ankles are tied together.
This is extremely uncomfortable and many times, prisoners are left like this for hours.
There are even situations where mentally ill patients would be tied up like this naked
and denied water and food for hours.
They are also left to stand, sit or lie naked in their own feces or urine and they are denied
shower privileges for days.
Number 8 brings us to Force fed drugs.
There was a very controversial and highly secretive government program that basically
revolved around trying to control people’s minds.
The scientists involved with this program decided it would be a good idea to test the
effects of LSD on unsuspecting prison inmates because they figured no one cares what happens
to inmates.
So they gave LSD to inmates would couldn’t fight back and they wouldn’t tell them what
the drug was.
In one case, a mental patient was doped with LSD for 174 days straight.
Nutraloaf comes into number 7.
We’ve all heard that prison food is terrible but this is arguably one of the most disgusting
“food” that has ever been given to another human being.
I mean this is basically the worst thing that prisons can legally give the prisoners without
it constituting as abuse.
Sure, it has all of the nutrients that your body needs to survive but apparently it is
super disgusting.
The prisoners get to choose between a week of Nutraloaf meals or spend a week in solitary
confinement.
Most of them pick solitary confinement.
Next up in at number 6 is almost Beaten to death.
There have been many reports of prisoners being drastically abused by the prison guards
almost to the point that they are unrecognizable.
Sometimes there are corrupt correctional officers that will allow gangs or other inmates to
beat each other almost to the point of death or they will take the prisoner away from the
cameras and do it themselves.
Solitary confinement makes it into number 5.
This is probably the worst form of psychological torture.
No one wants to be sent to the hole.
Prisoners in solitary spend 22-24 hours a day in a small cell with barely any human
contact.
Many inmates spend years or even decades cut off from any real social interaction.
This extreme isolation can permanently affect their emotional and mental health.
They quickly become paranoid and more prone to violence and hallucinations.
Albert Woodfox spent 43 years in solitary confinement, so I guess you could say that
he was tortured for over 4 decades.
Number 4 brings us to White noise torture.
This is the sound that you get when you don’t tune your device to the correct channel.
Here it is.
This is probably one of the most annoying sounds in the world so just imagine if you
were forced to listen to this for long periods of time.
You’d probably go insane and be so sleep deprived.
Tiger cages are in at number 3.
This cruel and unusual form of punishment is absolutely terrifying.
Some prisons will use tiger cages for punishing the prisoners.
These cages are made out of barbed wire and they have just enough space for the prisoners
to lie or sit.
In these cages, the prison guards will torment the prisoner by pouring cold water on them
at night, pouring salt water into or lighting a fire near the tiger cages during hot days.
Number 2 takes us to Cancer injections.
Back in the 1950’s scientists wanted to inject prisoners with cancer to study how
their bodies would react.
Even though all of the prisoners were volunteers, I’m sure they weren’t told how dangerous
and life threatening this experiment would be.
They were probably told that they would get time reduced off of their sentence or compensated.
Either way, this is very immoral and highly unethical.
Finally in at number 1 we have Being left to die.
Sometimes when a criminal commits an extremely awful crime, there are certain police officers
that try to take justice into their own hands.
There was a case of one man named Adolph Archie who shot and murdered a police officer.
Well, he was in need of medical attention himself because he had been shot but instead
of sending him to the hospital, they brought him to jail and within a few hours he was
dead.
All of his teeth were shattered, his skull was fractured and he had severe hemorrhaging
in his testicles.
So he had been beaten to death by an angry mob of police officers and I bet this wasn’t
the first time that something like this happened.
Well there you guys have it