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10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by mickyeddi(m): 8:17am On May 11, 2015
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Alcatraz, San Francisco, California




The Rock’ or ‘Devil’s Island’ is a prison hell that was built in the 1920s and was designed in such a way that escape was improbable. As the inmates lost contact with the outside world, they were subjected to abusive and arrogant guards who imposed complete silence as prisoners were not only disallowed to converse with each other, but to show their emotions as well.

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Gitarama Central Prison, Rwanda



Described as hell on earth, all prisoners were doomed to eat, sleep, live, rot, and die squeezed together with four men per square yard in the roofless brick box called the Gitarama Prison. Designed to house 400 people, the population boomed to 7,000 in the mid-1990s in the wake of the Rwandan genocide, and prisoners were left for dead there. Amidst dysentery and despair, prisoners stand cramped together under all weather conditions, choking on the smoke of cooking fires, and suffering from gangrene. They even resorted to eating each other’s flesh out of sheer desperation.

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Diyarbakır Prison, Turkey



The world’s most sadistic and forbidding penal institution has been referred to as having the greatest number of human rights violations per prisoner. Known for a great number of instances of physical and mental torture, it also gained notoriety for its unlivable conditions, sexual abuse of inmates, and for incarcerating even children for life. To escape their situations, inmates attempted hunger strikes, committed suicide, and even set themselves on fire.

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ADX Florence Supermax Prison, Colorado



This maximum security prison was built in response to the attacks committed against the guards and staff of other prisons in America. Since prisoners are isolated from the staff and they cannot go anywhere, inmates suffer from psychological torture, leading some to commit suicide.

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El Rodeo, Guatire, Venezuela



During the presidency of Hugo Chavez, crime rates soared and overcrowded the Venezuelan prisons with 50,000 prisoners, two-thirds of which were still awaiting sentencing. On June 12, 2011, a visitor day at El Rodeo erupted into a bloodbath between rival gangs and resulted in a siege that lasted for an entire month.

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La Sabaneta, Venezuela



In one of the most brutal penal facilities in South America, violence is a daily occurrence. Besides being at the mercy of diseases, insufficient food and care, little to no medical services, and underpaid staff, inmates were also left to their own devices as they fashion weapons to kill one another.

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Bang Kwang Prison, Thailand



The ‘Bangkok Hilton’ housed the ‘napinya chained’ inmates, many of whom went crazy due to the stress of the first month in detention. The most violent prison in all of Thailand houses many foreign prisoners and handles death row inmates. It is known for being overcrowded, understaffed, and having deplorable living conditions.

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Tadmor Military Prison, Syria



Dubbed by Amnesty International as the most oppressive prison in the world with every aspect of it designed to dehumanize its populace, it became more infamous in June 1980 when President Hafez al-Assad ordered the killings of all prisoners as retaliation for the attempted assassination on his life by the Muslim Brotherhood. The clean-up massacre that lasted for 2 weeks killed some 800 to 2,400 inmates.

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Carandiru Prison, Brazil



The site of the Carandiru Tragedy in 1992, where riots triggered the mass execution of inmates by the guards, became notorious for having an insanely high body count of 1,300 deaths in the course of its 46 years in history. It was closed down in 2002 due to the campaigns of Amnesty International amidst reports of gross human rights violations that the Brazilian government could not answer for.

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Camp 22, North Korea



The notorious Hoeryong Concentration Camp, which has gained international attention in 2012 after its warden defected to China, was an isolated prison for political prisoners and has been in operation since 1965. A large compound that holds 50,000 prisoners, it was claimed that three generations of dissident families have been imprisoned there to completely remove the ‘roots.’ In addition, the death camp has subjected inmates to extreme torture and human experimentation where they become lab rats for biological weapons like anthrax, bomb testing, and other brutalities.


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Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by nwafuluozoh: 8:19am On May 11, 2015
Which one we go put Tinubu and co?
Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by lonngmann(m): 8:19am On May 11, 2015
Kirikiri maximum prison nko?

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Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by younghartz(m): 8:22am On May 11, 2015
Camp 22 shocked
That place go be die! lipsrsealed
Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by shakazuldadon: 8:23am On May 11, 2015
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Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by shakazuldadon: 8:23am On May 11, 2015
some edyot will soon mention GEJ and co here...
Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by Mathematical(f): 8:27am On May 11, 2015
i know camp 22 wont miss the number one spot.. cheesy,Nigeria need such institution for our political rascals and underworld criminals...besides where is Guantanamo bay? undecided
Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by mickyeddi(m): 8:31am On May 11, 2015
Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison







The Kirikiri Maximum Secuity Prison and the Ikoyi Prison are already infamous for their congestion. The former, as at February 1, 1990, had a population of 1,645 but only a rated capacity of 956 .

Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison is also infamous for its "degrading" treatment of prisoners , "appalling" living conditions, sub-standard medical care, and a very high death rate.
Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by Nobody: 8:35am On May 11, 2015
Lolz .
Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by Nobody: 8:36am On May 11, 2015
Lolz . meanwhile please vote VICKYDERA2 for miss nairaland 2015
Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by Mutuwa(m): 8:40am On May 11, 2015
cry
Yet there are innocent inmates in all these places..

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Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by Davidson267(m): 8:41am On May 11, 2015
Booked
Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by Nobody: 9:05am On May 11, 2015
If they like they should build acidic and deadly prisons like that from the movie "escape from Sobibor" crime and criminals will never cease.
Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by Emmanuel247(m): 9:22am On May 11, 2015
God forbid ooO
Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by Tunami(m): 2:28pm On May 11, 2015
wich of dis prisons ar they going to put okonjo iweala, stella oduah tinubu nd d rest of dem? Because most of them supposed to be in this prisons
Re: 10 Most Brutal Prisons In The World by echobee(f): 5:49am On May 12, 2015
Tunami:
wich of dis prisons ar they going to put okonjo iweala, stella oduah tinubu nd d rest of dem? Because most of them supposed to be in this prisons
camp 22 grin

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