The concept of prisons as we know them today is relatively modern. In antiquity, jails served less as places of penitence and more as a purgatory before the final judgment of guilt, which was often punished either by enslavement or execution. Before the mega jails and super-maxes of today, historical prisons took on many forms, from isolated islands to underground dungeons. Excluding any prison that is currently open and also the horrifically depressing sub-genre of concentration camps, this list reveals some of the scariest prisons in history. Be sure to subscribe to the Weird History Newsletter: 🤍🤍ranker.com/newsletters/weird-history?utm_source=Youtube&utm_medium=WeirdHistory&utm_campaign=WHnewsletters&utm_content=description_box #prisons #worstprisons #weirdhistory
Batman wasn't bitten by a vampire bat and he has no powers
While interesting, the Irish Great famine didn’t happen until 1845/46. 1796 is 2 years before the 1798 rebellion.
Is there an episode on Henri Charriere?
1. The Mamertime
2. Pitesti
3. Prison at Urga Mongolia
4. Devils Island
5. HMS Jersey
6. Holmesburg Prison
7. Galapogas Prison
8. Eastern State Penitentiary
9. Carlise Castle Prison
10. Chateau
11. Kilmainham
12. Robben Island
It never ceases to shock me how humans can come up with more and more cruel ways to torture each other.😢 😢😢
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"So extreme we can't even discuss them".... isn't that why most people watched this video? To hear the worst of the worst? Sounds like a failure to conduct proper research. Thumbs down!
I wonder why, at W1ktpGxmm70&t=1m11s 1:11 , on the altar in the Mamertine, the crucifix in upside down.
Great video….
Any current Venezuelan prison beats this lot by far...
You forgot to mention a youth prison camp where they force kids to dig 6 foot holes in the middle of a desert. I heard the staff is inhumane, they hardly get water, and some kids would rather risk dying out in the desert on the run than to stay at the camp and dig holes(no matter how good the songs they sing are).
Funny and interesting that two of the worst prisons were in Pennsylvania.
The small town of Llanview, Pennsylvania from the 1990s soap One Life to Live wrongfully imprisoned dozens of innocent people, including Dorian Cramer Lord.
What a way to start the video off. Claiming St. Peter and St. Paul were held in the Mamertine yet cannot prove either actually existed.
Auschtwitz concentration camp,Stalin gulag
How is jail is made
The devil's island and Holmesburg gave me the chills
You didn't mention The Black Hole of Calcutta
Title of the video should be changed to "10 examples where prisoners were subject to inhumane conditions"