Patrick Bennet 
Every human has the right to be free and to decide how to live his own life, because this is an essential part of our existence as a species. If you take a man’s freedom from him, you literally rob him of the power to control his life and he would be worth nothing more than a pet. The purpose of prison institutions is to show criminals what is the feeling of losing your freedom. Most of them are doing a good job and after experiencing the lack of freedom, many convicts stop committing crimes for fear that they would return. It is simple and it makes total sense. This is especially effective for prisoners with less dangerous crimes like littering or tax evasion. Being in jail for a along with murderers, rapists and much more is a good deterrent. The long dark nights would work as a harsh reminder to follow all the laws and regulations strictly so as to never wind up back inside.
Eventually, the most dangerous criminals end up locked in certain prisons, notoriously for their harsh conditions and brutal treatment. You can probably imagine what it is like to have some of the most violent people locked together in the same place. One thing is for sure – if there is a hell on Earth, it is something similar to those prisons, full of misery, suffering and brutality.
Check out the following list in which you will find fifteen of the most hostile prisons in the world.
1. The Evil Fortress Of Brasil
The 80-year old Carandiru Prison has always been a pool of violence, which is increasing steadily with years passing by. Shockingly, the place has even suffered an AIDS epidemic, wiping out about 20% of the population inside. More than 1,300 prisoners lost their lives in the past 46 years, and nobody knows how many other deaths happened in the facility before someone started counting.
Things escalated badly in 1992 when a mass riot forced the prison management to call for backup. The riot turned into a mass killing of the inmates by the prison guards along with the police forces who came to help them. Most of the prisoners had already surrendered, but that did not save them, as many were killed in their own cells. Amnesty International attempted to close the facility numerous times, but it seems that Carandiru will remain open, and the horrible things happening inside are likely to continue.
2. The Distant Russian Prison On The Frozen Petak Island
When it comes to Russian convicts, there must be something more than a typical prison to be able to correct their behavior and it certainly has to be a place that everyone would fear. If you wonder what kind of a place that might that be, the answer is the prison on Petak Island. Russia’s government really gave their best effort when they built it.
The island is located in the middle of one of Russia’s biggest lakes, and the prison itself is full of the worst criminals the country has seen. Each of them spends about twenty hours every day locked in solitary confinement.
Visitors can come to the prison only twice a year. The majority of convicts lose their sanity before their sentences expire, because the isolation is unbearable. The weather conditions are severe, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in January.
3. This Nairobi Prison Is Home To Brutal Events
The Kamiti Maximum Security prison in Nairobi is widely known to be an extremely brutal place. The facility’s capacity is around 1,400 people, but the actual number of convicts is more than 4,000. The buildings lack a water supply system, so the inmates have to carry it in tanks manually every day under the burning sun. Worst of all, the G-block of the Kamiti prison is the root of everything gruesome in the complex, like rapes, sodomy and endless violence.
When smartphones become widely popular, some videos of the horror inside emerged. In 2008, police forces attempted to find and take every single smartphone from the inmates, and the raid escalated in a massive beating, which some of the prisoners recorded on video. The place has seen a cholera epidemic and other preventable diseases.
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