INTRIGUING STATISTICS AND TRUTHS ABOUT PRISONS AND PRISONERS
Added on: 5th May 2016
NORWAY'S WORST CRIMINALS GO TO AN ISLAND PRISON
WHERE THEY ARE ALMOST FREE TO DO AS THEY
WISH. BY INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS IT IS EXTREMELY
MINIMUM SECURITY BUT THE PRISON HAS ONE OF THE
LOWEST RATES OF RE-OFFENDING IN THE WORLD
IN 1995, ROBERT LEE BROCK SUED HIMSELF FROM
BEHIND BARS FOR LETTING HIMSELF GET DRUNK
AND COMMIT CRIMES, WHICH LED TO HIS INCARCERATION.
HIS CASE WAS THROWN OUT
ALTHOUGH ALCATRAZ WAS ONE OF THE FEW US PRISONS
WITH HOT WATER SHOWERS, THE ONLY REASON WAS
TO DISCOURAGE INMATES FROM TRYING TO ESCAPE
(THE REASONING WAS THAT INMATES USED TO HOT
SHOWERS WOULD HATE THE COLD WATER OF THE BAY)
A PRISONER AT BALTIMORE CITY DETENTION CENTRE
GOT FOUR FEMALE GUARDS PREGNANT AND MADE
NEARLY $20,000 OFF OF SMUGGLED GOODS
IN JAPAN, PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW ARE NOT NOTIFIED
OF THEIR IMPENDING DEATH UNTIL ONLY A FEW HOURS
BEFORE. THEIR FAMILIES ARE ONLY
NOTIFIED AFTERWARDS
SOME PRIVATE PRISONS HAVE REALIZED THAT GIVING
INMATES TVS IS A CHEAPER WAY TO KEEP THEM
CALM THAN HIRING MORE GUARDS
WHEN PSYCHOLOGIST TIMOTHY LEARY WAS SENT TO
PRISON IN 1970 HE TOOK A PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST
THAT WAS USED TO ASSIGN PRISONERS TO DIFFERENT
WORK DETAILS. SINCE HE HAD ACTUALLY DESIGNED
THE TEST, HE PASSED IT IN SUCH A WAY THAT HE
WOULD BE ASSIGNED TO A MINIMUM SECURITY PRISON
FROM WHICH HE EVENTUALLY ESCAPED
RONNIE LEE GARDNER (EXECUTED IN 2010) ONCE
BROKE THE GLASS OF THE VISITATION ROOM,
KNOCKED OUT THE LIGHTS, AND HAD INTERCOURSE
WITH A FEMALE VISITOR. OTHER INMATES CHEERED
HIM ON AND BLOCKADED THE DOORS.
AN INMATE IN CALIFORNIA ONCE MANAGED TO
SMUGGLE THREE JUMBO BINDER RINGS AND
TWO BOXES OF STAPLES IN HIS RECTUM. IT
EARNED HIM THE NICKNAME OF OD
(OFFICE DEPOT)
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