10 of the worst prisons in the world

We offer you a selection of the ten worst prisons in the world, where are detained dangerous criminal.

1. Diyarbakir prison

The prison in the city of Diyarbakir in the southeast of Turkey, was built in 1980. Since then, it took many of the most violent criminals in this country and for this reason can be considered one of the worst prisons in the world. Diarbakyrskaya prison is not only known for the inmates used to physical torture - torture people there also mentally.

Prison is divided into two sections: E where may be contained 744 prisoners and D, which may be up to 688 mi people, but at this point both sections are filled.

2. Sabaneta

Sabaneta is located in Venezuela and is considered one of the worst prisons in the world. This is one of the most brutal correctional facilities in South America, so the inmates want to leave it as soon as soon as the fall back. Inside the prison thrive dozens of infectious diseases, and almost did not take care of the prisoners. In addition, the prison inmates themselves committed numerous violent crimes.

3. ADX Florence prison

ADX Florence prison - a place to house the most dangerous criminals in the United States. Located in Florence County, Colorado, the prison currently contains 439 inmates, and can "boast" the highest level of security in the country. Many of the prisoners tried to commit suicide because of complete isolation from everything and everyone, including other prisoners and guards. Mountain Alcatraz (the informal name of prison) works with 1994 year.

4. Tadmorskaya prison

Tadmorskaya prison is located in the Syrian city Tadmar 200 km from Damascus. Originally a prison intended for the maintenance of the war criminals, but from the 1980s there began to imprison all. In 1980, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad ordered the killing of all prisoners in its walls, which at that time was about 2,400-ton man. In 2001, the prison was closed, but from 2011 again began to function.

5. Carandiru

Carandiru is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was first opened in 1920, but until 1956 the criminals it is not contained, and in 2002, the prison was closed.

Earlier, in 1992, a large-scale riot occurred in Carandiru, in which prisoners were massacred, and 111 of them were killed during the uprising. Another problem, due to which the prison finally closed, there was an epidemic of AIDS - at that time contained about 8 thousand people in prison.

6. The camp is 22

Camp 22 in North Korea, perhaps the worst prison in the world. The official name of political prison camps - Kwan-li-so number 22, and the prison is completely isolated from the outside world. As a rule, prisoners and sometimes even their family members were sentenced to life imprisonment in these walls. Now there are more than 5 thousand people.

7. Bang Kwang Central Prison

Central Prison Bang Kwang Central Prison is located in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand - it is about 11 kilometers north of Bangkok. Correctional Facility, which contains only men, considered to be one of the worst prisons in the Far East because of overcrowding and exceptional cruelty guards. In prison, he is now serving a term of several foreign criminals, and there is traditionally sent to the people sentenced to death.

8. El Rodeo

The prison of El Rodeo is located in guatire in Venezuela and is considered the worst in the country insulator. strict regime now in this prison serving a term of about 50 thousand prisoners. In 2011, the year here broke out a brutal war between the two groups, for which suppression required the intervention of the armed forces. In El Rodeo certainly never want to go back, if the prisoner is so lucky that he was released.

9. Gitarama

Gitarama Central Prison is located in Rwanda and is famous throughout the world as one of the worst prisons. The conditions are so bad that some inmates have resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. Many prisoners say about this place, as a real "hell on earth". Initially, the prison was designed for 400 inmates in all, however, since the 1990s, for some reason, it contains about 7 thousand people.

10. The island-prison Rikers

Rikers Island Jail in New York takes the most brutal American criminals. It is located on an island between the urban areas of Queens and Bronoks adjacent to LaGuardia Airport. It is famous for its exceptional brutality prison working in it guards.