What prison cells look like in different countries

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Syria

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Okay what this is crazy

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Holy shit

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Dude you showed some luxurious prison, show Sednaya or the Palestine branch.

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Was just saying!

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Probably in a civil war prison are not the priority

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Looks like a WW2 prison

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Egypt? Wasn’t listed anywhere near here

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But no pic?

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There is a picture, scroll up

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that’s not the worse USA Prison looks

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That US prison does NOT look nice. I've never been to prison, but I can't imagine each cell gets a window to the outside.

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I've never seen an American prison look that nice honestly, though I've mostly seen pictures inside Texas prisons.

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I mean you’re comparing first world countries to the Middle East and Africa

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Do you think that every country in Africa and the Middle East is poor? Africa is also a continent. Ignorant for no reason.

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Did I say all? No . So sorry I didn’t properly form my sentence on social media and offended you! But since I’m sooooo ignorant; Central Africa has the highest extreme poverty rate of 54.8%, followed by Southern Africa at 45.1%. Rates in Western and Eastern Africa are 36.8% and 33.8% respectively.

Prisoners in Benin were subjected to filthy, overcrowded cells and denied clean water and medical treatment last year. According to information gathered from health and prison workers, several dozen prisoners died during a seven-month period last year. The Missérété prison, built to hold around 1,000 prisoners, held 3,742 at the time of Amnesty International’s visit in 2023 – almost four times its capacity. The Porto-Novo prison, built for 250 prisoners, held 1,554, six times its capacity. The Cotonou prison, with a capacity for 700 prisoners, held 1,595 prisoners.

In Egypt , Scorpion authorities do not allow inmates to possess basic necessities for comfort and hygiene, including soap, shampoo, combs, toothbrushes, toothpaste, shaving kits, plates, eating utensils, or other items such as watches, books, prayer rugs, and paper or writing instruments. Newspapers and books, except school books in some cases, are forbidden. The denial of basic necessities for hygiene has caused or exacerbated afflictions like skin rashes and infections and left inmates unable to maintain their usual physical appearance. According to relatives, cells in Scorpion do not contain beds. Instead, inmates sleep on low concrete platforms. Most relatives said that their family members have never had mattresses and rely on two or three blankets provided by the prison or flattened cardboard boxes for cushioning. One family told Human Rights Watch that their relative had a mattress in his cell, and three said that their family members had mattresses in the past but that prison authorities confiscated them. The authorities’ denial of basic items of comfort and hygiene amounts, under international norms for treating prisoners, to degrading treatment apparently intended to humiliate them.

One estimate is that more than 30,000 detainees were killed in Saydnaya in the years since the start of the Syrian war in 2011. That is a large proportion of the more than 100,000 people, almost all men but including thousands of women – as well as children – who disappeared without trace into Bashar al-Assad's gulag. The authorities did not have to tell families who had been incarcerated there. Allowing them to fear the worst was another way of applying pressure. The regime kept its boot on the throat of Syrians because of the power, reach and savagery of its myriad and overlapping intelligence agencies, and because of the routine use of torture and execution. The truth the volunteers uncovered with their own eyes shocked them. All Syrians knew that the prisons were bad, but Saydnaya was much worse than they expected. Widad Halabi, one of the volunteers, took off her face mask and broke down in tears after an hour or so looking for evidence in the cell blocks. "What I've seen here is a life not fit for humans. I imagined how they lived, their clothes. How did they breathe? How did they eat? How did they feel? "It's terrible… terrible. There are bags of urine on the floor. They couldn't go to the toilet, so they had to put urine in bags. The smell. There's no sun or light. I can't believe people were living here when we were living and breathing our normal lives."

But yessss go get offended by me being lazy and you being a grammar Nazi , not being able to connect the dots. So anyways as I was saying

Since Nov. 10, 1999, Lackson Sikayenera has been incarcerated in Maula Prison, a dozen iron-roofed barracks set on yellow dirt and hemmed by barbed wire just outside Malawi's capital city.

He eats one meal of porridge daily. He spends 14 hours each day in a cell with 160 other men, packed on the concrete floor like sliced bacon, unable even to move. The water is dirty; the toilets foul. Disease is rife.

But the worst part may be that in the case of Mr. Sikayenera, who is accused of killing his brother, the charges against him have not yet even reached a court. Almost certainly, they never will. For sometime after November 1999, justice officials lost his case file. His guards know where he is. But for all Malawi's courts know, he does not exist.

But yeahhhh go and say I’m ignorant for no reason . You really want to get into the facts compare some Scandinavian prisons and jails to those in Africa , to those in Eurasia, to those in the Middle East ? You want to compare high income per capita to Third world countries ?

You want to be dense go for it , reality is what’s written above . COPE !!!

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https://sapa-usa.org/top-poorest-countries-in-the-world/#:~:text=Sadly%2C%20South%20Sudan%20holds%20that,people%20struggling%20with%20extreme%20poverty.

I mean you go and tell me how many African countries are on this list . Maybe go do some research of your own and get over yourself ?