World's 10 Most Dangerous Prisons
Tadmor Prison
The Tadmor Prison in Syria takes the second place with its heinous prison conditions. The violence is merciless and gruesome. A former prisoner described the prison as ‘kingdom of death and madness.’ The vicious guards are known to butcher prisoners with axes. The political prisoners are starved by the prison administrators who eventually resemble the concentration camp malnutrition victims. In 1980, after an attempt to assassinate the President of Syria, the commandos as a ‘warning message’ butchered over 500 prisoners. The act was beyond being callous and inhumane and yet it only makes the second spot.
Carandiru Prison
The Brazilian prison Carandiru tops the charts for being the most dangerous and worst prison in the world. In the 1992 massacre led by the police, the death toll of the general population was unbelievably high. Even the surrendered inmates were shot in there dingy prison cells. In its 46 years in service, the number of death at this prison is accounted to over 1300.In 2002 the violence inflicted by the officials was stopped, as the prison was closed. The physical violence was not the only preposterous happenings at this prison, it had also turned into a center of AIDS epidemic spreading rapidly, infecting one out of five inmates.
These prisons can easily make anybody shiver with terror just by their tales, it’s very difficult to imagine the lives of those people who have or are living in any of these prisons.
