In advance, we warn that it is better to begin to read the following article with a nervous and impressionable one. This will leave you under the impression for a long time. Ready? Then we begin our tour of the most terrible prisons in our world.
1. Diyarbakir, Turkey
The list of inhuman places of detention includes a prison located in the city of Diyarbakir with the same name. Here, not only adults, but also children sit behind bars. Moreover, there are problems with sewerage, as a result of which there is a poisonous stench in the room. Often the corridors are flooded with sewage. In addition, the cells are overcrowded with prisoners. And from the side of the guards there are all kinds of abuses of their position. For example, in 1996 a "planned slaughter" occurred in the Turkish prison. The guards "set" prisoners against each other. As a result, 10 people were killed and 25 were seriously injured. So far, things are not going very well here, to put it mildly. Some prisoners reduce their accounts with life, and those who hope for the best arrange riots and hunger strikes.
2. La Sabaneta, Venezuela
And here are the monstrous conditions of people's detention. This prison is considered one of the most dangerous in the world. One guard monitors 150 prisoners. The building is designed for 15 000. Now in La Sabanet 25 (!) 000 prisoners. Many sleep in hammocks. In this prison, not only the living conditions are terrible. Here there is no sanitation (cholera is a common thing). It is known that La Sabaneta is corrupt and some inmates control this place. In 1994, as a result of the war between the prisoners, more than 100 prisoners were burned alive and hanged.
3. ADX Florence Supermax, USA
This is the most terrible prison in North America. That's exactly how the Times described this institution: "Prisoners spend their days in cells measuring 3.6 to 2.1 meters thick with concrete walls and double sliding metal doors (with an opaque outer part so that prisoners can not see each other). The only window of the chamber, almost meter high, but only 10 centimeters wide, allows you to see a small patch of sky and hardly anything else. Each cell has a washbasin combined with a toilet bowl and an automatic shower, and prisoners sleep on concrete slabs covered with thin mattresses. In most cameras there are TV sets (with built-in radio), prisoners have access to books and magazines, as well as some materials for needlework. Arrestants are given up to 10 hours of exercise per week outside of the cells, there can be alternating single visits to the "hall" indoors (a camera without windows with a single horizontal bar) and group exits to the street, to the yard for walks (with each still being confined in a separate cell). Food is passed through the slots in the inner door, through them all personal communication takes place (with a guard, a psychiatrist, a priest or an imam). "
4. Tadmor, Syria
It is located in the city of the same name. Initially, the Tadmor Penitentiary was intended to keep war criminals. Since the 1980s, not only the military, but also other prisoners have arrived here. This prison is known for its brutal regime. Here, every person is tortured, which often leads to death. Guards, in order to force admission of guilt, during interrogation, beat convicts with metal pipes, cables, whips, whips and wooden boards. There were cases when guards pumped prisoners with heavy drugs, put packages on their heads, took them out into the yard and hammered them with axes ...
5. Karandiru, Brazil
The prison is located in the territory of São Paulo. Here in 1992, 20 policemen organized a mass shooting of prisoners. As a result, in 2014 each of them received 156 years of imprisonment. To date, over 8,000 prisoners have been imprisoned behind bars.
6. Camp 66, North Korea
It is also known as a camp for political prisoners "Kwan-li-so". In it annually 20% of prisoners are lost. Here, a monotonous diet. Prisoners are fed flour, diluted with warm water. Sometimes they give soup with salted cabbage. One escaped prisoner with tears in her eyes remembers: "For 8 days they forced me to sit with my head down from 4 am to 10 pm. Every time I moved, they beat me with a stick. "
7. Bangkwan, Thailand
In this prison there are suicide bombers who wait for the death penalty and those who are sentenced to 20 or more years in prison. People spend in rooms of 6 to 4 for fourteen hours a day. Meals in prison are very meager, once a day. Prisoners are invited to buy their own food for money sent by relatives, and if this is not possible, they work on each other. In Bangkvah reign unsanitary conditions, in cells where 25 people live, only one toilet. The sewage system in the prison is not provided for, it is replaced by concrete pits.
8. El Rodeo, Venezuela
In this prison there are about 50,000 people. Here several bandit groups vie. In 2011, several prisoners in El Rodeo made a riot and took hundreds of people hostage.
9. Gitarama, Rwanda
Barracks are designed to find 700 prisoners, but in reality this prison contains 5,000 people. Many prisoners have forgotten what to eat every day. There are often cases when other prisoners tried to eat weak prisoners. Here there are not enough beds, and that is why many sleep on damp earth. The cells are stained with feces. According to statistics, every eighth prisoner does not live up to the verdict of the court.
10. Rikers, USA
This is a prison island with an area of 1.7 km2. In 2009, 12,000 prisoners were held on its territory. At Rikers there are 10 separate prisons for adult men, women and minors, who represent the American analogue of the Russian SIZO. Among all prisoners 40% suffer from mental disorders. A member of the City Council of New York, who once visited Ruckers, described what he saw: "When I visited Rikers Island, I saw the horrible conditions of prisoners in solitary confinement. This is a very small camera (3.5x6), it contains the smell of urine and excrement, the bed is covered with rust, the mattress is all molded. The cell is very hot. And the prisoners told me that they were woken up at 4 in the morning so that they could use their hour for a walk. If they refuse to go for a walk at 4 o'clock in the morning - they are forced to be alone 24 hours a day. " And the former prisoner noted that the guards use prison gangs to control other prisoners.
11. San Juan de Lurigancho, Peru
Initially, it had to contain 2,500 prisoners, but now there are about 7,000 prisoners. On its territory, lawlessness is created. Cocks fights for this place - a normal phenomenon, as well as visits to prostitutes for the "medical examination". Prisoners wander around themselves around corps, committing murders and other acts of violence.
12. San Quentin, USA
She is in the state of California. San Quentin executes the death penalty (gas chamber). Recently, a lethal injection has been administered. In most states of the US, as a more humane type of execution, electrocution was replaced. Until 1944 during interrogations in San Quentin, torture was used, but then they were banned.
13. Alcatraz, USA
It is the eponymous island in the San Francisco Bay. Now Alcatraz has become a museum. And earlier many criminals were afraid that one day they would be transferred to this prison. Thus, the prison was surrounded by a solid and high wall, barbed wire was stretched out everywhere and patrols stood. There were no common cells: the convict almost always was alone with him. By the way, Al Capone was serving his term in Alcatraz.
14. Sante, France
In the history of the prison, many famous people and famous names have visited it, including the famous French poets Paul Verlaine and Guillaume Apollinaire. All the cells in Santa are constantly crowded and instead of four people laid on the staff, there are chaljatsya for 6-8 prisoners. Shower rooms on the floors have become completely unfit for use and it is almost impossible to wash them normally. In addition, prisoners are allowed to visit the prison only twice a week. This leads to unsanitary conditions, infection with fungal diseases and lice. Another misfortune is the consumption of poor-quality and rotten foods. As a result, prisoners suffer from gastric diseases. There are so many rats in prison that prisoners are forced to keep their belongings suspended to the ceiling. In 1999, 120 prisoners committed suicide.
15. Stanley, Hong Kong
This is one of the prisons with an increased level of security. It is a place of torture and death. This includes not only serial killers and thieves, but also refugees from China, those who tried to cross the border.
16. Vologda Pyatak, Russia
After the death of Stalin, the colony turned into a prison. Here are for life prisoners. Now Vologda Pyatak on the island of Fiery is serviced by 250 units of personnel, of which more than fifty (or more precisely 66 people) are women. The cells contain 2 people each. Convicts do not have the right to lie down during the day, not even to sit down on the bed, every time they leave the cell they are subjected to a thorough search.
17. Butyrskaya prison, Russia
This is the largest prison in Moscow. At the moment, there are about 3,000 people in the Butyrka prison, although more recently there have been more. This is a whole prison complex of 20 three-story buildings, with a total of 434 cameras. In Butyrka convicts suffer from AIDS, suffer from tuberculosis, as well as infectious infections.
18. Camp 1931, Israel
This is a strict regime prison located in the northern part of Israel. Until 2003, nothing was known about her. It is only known that prisoners are kept in small cells (2x2) without windows. In some rooms there is no toilet, and the guards themselves decide when to supply running water to the cell. The convict, released in 2004, Mustafa Dirani, noted that investigators who interrogated prisoners often subjected them to sexual violence.
19. Kamiti, Kenya
This is a prison of strict regime. At first, Kamiti was planned to accommodate 800 prisoners, but by 2003 this number had increased to almost three thousand. This institution is considered the most crowded place of detention of prisoners in the world. Because of this, there were problems with hygiene and sanitation.
20. Attica, USA
This is one of the prisons with maximum security conditions. It was in it from 1981 to 2012 was the killer of John Lennon, Mark Chapman. In September 1971, 2,000 prisoners were captured by 33 guards, demanding better living conditions from the government and the elimination of racial discrimination. For four days there were negotiations. As a result, 39 people were killed, including security guards and prisoners.