FASCINATING STATISTICS ABOUT PRISONS AND PRISONERS

IN 2010, TWO INMATES SIMPLY WALKED OUT

OF A JAIL IN WISCONSIN USING FALSIFIED

RELEASE RECORDS. THEY WERE

CAUGHT SEVERAL DAYS LATER

IN NUUK, GREENLAND, SOME PRISONERS HAVE

THE KEYS TO THEIR OWN CELLS. THEY ARE

ALSO ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE PRISON TO

GO TO SCHOOL AND WORK. SOME OF

THEM EVEN GO HUNTING

GUARDS AT NEW MEXICO STATE PENITENTIARY

WOULD LABEL UNCOOPERATIVE PRISONERS

AS SNITCHES WHICH WOULD LEAD OTHER

PRISONERS TO ABUSE AND BEAT THEM

NAZIS ALLEGEDLY FORCED GYPSIES TO DRINK

ONLY SEAWATER. THE GYPSIES GOT SO

DEHYDRATED THAT THEY WOULD LICK

FRESHLY MOPPED FLOORS JUST TO

GET A LITTLE HYDRATION

THE LONGEST TIME SPENT ON DEATH ROW

ACCORDING TO THE GUINNESS BOOK OF

WORLD RECORDS WAS JAPANESE BOXER

IWAO HAKAMADA. HE SPENT 46 YEARS ON

DEATH ROW BEFORE DNA EVIDENCE LED

TO HIS RELEASE IN 2014

A CON MAN NAMED RONALD MCINTOSH ONCE

ESCAPED FROM PRISON IN CALIFORNIA,

HIJACKED A HELICOPTER, AND CAME BACK TO

PICK UP HIS GIRLFRIEND WHO WAS ALSO

SERVING TIME AT THE PRISON. THEY WERE

BOTH CAUGHT NOT LONG AFTER

SINGER MERLE HAGGARD WAS IN SAN QUENTIN

PRISON WHEN JOHNNY CASH PLAYED THERE.

THE PERFORMANCE HELPED INSPIRE HIM

TO TURN HIS LIFE AROUND AND PUT HIS

TALENTS TO GOOD USE

DURING A FIRE AT OHIO PENITENTIARY IN 1930,

GUARDS REFUSED TO LET PRISONERS OUT

OF THEIR CELLS. SOME PRISONERS, HOWEVER,

MANAGED TO OVERPOWER A COUPLE GUARDS

AND BEGAN FREEING THEIR FELLOW INMATES