STATISTICS ABOUT PRISONS AND PRISONERS
Added on: 9th Oct 2016
TEXAS NO LONGER OFFERS A SPECIAL LAST MEAL
TO DEATH ROW INMATES. INSTEAD, THEY ARE
GIVEN THE SAME MEAL AS EVERYBODY ELSE
BAYER, FAMOUS FOR ASPIRIN, ONCE BOUGHT PRISONERS
FROM THE NAZIS TO TEST THEIR DRUGS ON
WHILE SERVING 10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A SPEECH
HE HAD GIVEN, EUGENE DEBS RAN FOR PRESIDENT
IN 1920 AND RECEIVED OVER A MILLION VOTES
JOE ARRIDY WAS REPORTED TO BE ONE OF THE
HAPPIEST PRISONERS EVER TO BE HELD ON
DEATH ROW. HE HAD AN IQ OF 46 AND PLAYED
WITH A TOY TRAIN THAT THE WARDEN HAD GIVEN HIM.
WHEN HE WAS LED TO THE GAS CHAMBER IN 1939,
HE SEEMED TO BE NERVOUS FOR A MOMENT BUT
THEN RELAXED WHEN THE WARDEN GRABBED
HIS HAND AND REASSURED HIM. HE WAS
POSTHUMOUSLY PARDONED IN 2011
INDIANA STATE PRISON STARTED A PROGRAM WHERE
PRISONERS ARE ALLOWED TO ADOPT A CAT. IT HAS
BEEN THOUGHT TO IMPROVE THEIR MOOD AND LEAD
TO BETTER REHABILITATIVE RESULTS
THAI PRISONERS CAN HAVE THEIR SENTENCES
REDUCED IF THEY TAKE PART IN BOXING MATCHES
AGAINST FOREIGNERS
THE LAST PRISONER TO BE REPATRIATED FROM WWII
WAS A HUNGARIAN SOLDIER NAMED ANDRAS TOMA
FOUND LIVING IN A RUSSIAN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
IN 2000
THE LARGEST JAIL BREAK IN HISTORY OCCURRED
WHEN HUNDREDS OF JAPANESE POWS ESCAPED
FROM AN AUSTRALIAN PRISON. THE JAPANESE
CONSIDERED THE AUSTRALIANS WEAK BECAUSE
THEY TREATED THEIR PRISONERS TOO WELL
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