From paying to enter and living with your family, to some strange punishments, here are 9 of the most unusual prisons in the world!
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9. Stanford Prison Experiment
It’s not weird for various schools or universities to go and make their own unique studies or tests to try and prove something. But for Stanford University, they decided to do an experiment (with the approval and funding of the Office of Naval Research) in which they would put students and a few volunteers into a prison-like scenario, and then test how it would affect them over the course of a couple weeks.
8. San Pedro Prison
In Bolivia, there is a prison known as San Pedro, and it’s the largest prison within the country itself. However, while it may seem like a regular prison on the outside, it’s nothing like you would think it would be on the inside. the reason for this is that it’s a lot less like a prison, and a lot more like an actual city. Just one that is guarded and has prison guards in it.
7. Cebu Prison
Located in the Philippines, Cebu Prison is a place that has gotten a lot of attention over the years because of their “unique” take on inmate reform. Usually this would mean that the guards and warden due horrible things to the inmates to try and get them to reform. But in the case of Cebu Prison, the warden got inspiration from the classic movie The Shawshank Redemption and decided to put the prisoners to ‘work’ by getting them to dance.
6. Halden Prison
When you think of the word “prison”, one of the things that pops into your mind no doubt is that it’s a place that is meant to invoke punishment, meaning that it will be VERY different from your world and you’ll have a variety of new rules to follow. But in the case of Halden Prison in Norway, that’s not the case, in fact, it’s referred to as the “Most Humane Prison In The World”.
5. Kresty Prison
Many prisons in Russia have a bad reputation for how they treat those inside their walls, and in the case of Kresty Prison, this former facility lived up to that hype and more. At first, it was built as a wine storage place in the 1730’s, but eventually, by 1867, it was turned into a prison that could hold about 700 people. In the 1900’s, after several upheavals in the Russian government, the prison was expanded to hold over 1100 inmates.
4. Canto Grande Prison
There is a phrase in the world today known as “the inmates running the asylum”, which is a reference to how if order isn’t used on those who need it, things can get quite chaotic. However, in Peru, within Canto Grande Prison, there was a situation that occurred to where the inmates ran the asylum…and it actually went kind of well…for a while anyway.
3. Squirrel Cage Jail
If you were an inmate at Squirrel Cage Jail in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, you were treated to one of the most unique, albeit unusual, prison designs in the known world. Because when you think of a prison layout, the prison you picture likely has square or rectangular cell blocks that go down a row or goes up many floors to contain all the prisoners. But in the case of this prison, that wasn’t true. On the inside of this prison was a “squirrel cage” design.
2. Maricopa County Jail
The question of how to treat prisoners in order to ensure they don’t commit new crimes once they’re out in the world again, or to punish them for the crimes they committed already, has long been a debate topic in the world, and for the prisoners at Maricopa County Jail, they found themselves on the “stick” end of the argument.
1. Fortezza Medicea Prison
In many ways, Fortezza Medicea Prison is just what you would expect from a prison. It has high-profile inmates, cells that are made of steel and are uncomfortable, and so on and so forth. The biggest difference though is regards to the food that is served there. This prison is in Italy, a country renowned for its amazing food, and so the prisoners are allowed to not just eat high-quality Italian food, they themselves get to make it.
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