Bang Kwang prison, Bangkok Thailand - Torture is routine, inmates crammed into tiny cells, one bowl of rice per day, required to wear leg irons for their first 3 months. Only 2 hours notice before being dragged off for execution.

Petak island prison, White Lake Russia - 22 hours a day shoved into a cage with one inmate, no lavatories, washing facilities or chance of release. You will spend your whole life here surrounded by cold water and snow.

Kamiti maximum security prison, Nairobi Kenya - Designed to hold 1500 occupants but overflowing with 3600. No descent water supply, violence, rape and sodomy go on endlessly. Workers beat on inmates.

Tadmor, Syria - A butcher house for inmates described as a kingdom of death and madness. Guards carve up prisoners with axes and blades. Non-violent prisoners are left to starve into human skeletons.

La Sabaneta prison, Venezuela - 25000 inmates kept in a prison meant for 15000. Violence and corruption running savage. 1 guard for every 150 prisoners. Rich inmates pay off guards for best cells.

Pelican Bay state, California - Tiny pinky sized whole to see outside from cell. Kept in cell for 23 hours a day, 1 hour locked in an exercise yard a cement box with 20 foot walls.

Alcatraz island, San Fransisco - Prison fortress build on an island designed to be escape proof. Violent escape attempts numerous and attacks were plenty. Shut down after 29 years.

Camp 1391, Izrael - Undiscovered until 2003, was airbrushed out of existence. 2x2 meter cell with no natural light. Sexual and physical abuse from the guards. Not told where they are, no visitors allowed.

Gitarama central prison, Gitarama Rwanda - A literal hell on earth. People live, sleep, eat, rot and die squeezed together 4 men per square yard. Designed to hold 400 but rose to 7000. Many left for dead.

Quantanamo bay, Cuba - Forced drugging, sexual degradation, barbed wire assaults, broken glass, and cigarette burns. U.S. congress rejects closing it.

Carandiru, Brazil - A place of terror for inmates, riots have prisons massacred by police and guards.1300 inmates butchered and an aids epidemic spread to 20 percent of prisoners. closed in 2002.

Riker island, New York - Notorious for brutal violence, worse than the roughest New york streets. Stabbings per year at 1000. Prisoners found with weapons given more time to their sentence.

Louisiana state penitentiary, Louisiana - Largest maximum security prison in the U.S. Prisoners work all day everyday to keep them tired at night. Prisoners kept in solitary confinement for 40 years.

Quonliso 22, North Korea - Isolated from the rest of the world, prisoners and families held in life long detention. Prisoners like walking skeletons, 30 percent have deformities from mistreatment and beatings.

ADX supermax, Colorado - Ultimate lockdown for most dangerous prisoners. Inmates kept in complete isolation from guards and other inmates. Described as a cleaner version of hell.