50 Insane Facts About Prison You Wouldn't Believe 

When I was 18, still in highschool, the public defender told me when I needed to be in court. I showed up on that day and was arrested for failure to appear. She told me the wrong day. I was in jail 3 and a half months because of this ...error.

Probably the saddest thing is that you have so many innocent people in jail, and even once you can prove they're innocent, it's a long shot to get them out and takes forever.

Two of my old buddies showed up at my trailer one night. When my wife asked them why they broke out of prison, they explained "We felt the institution no longer had anything to offer us."

"There are more prisons than colleges" That....sums up the USA pretty well, and I'm American!

When you escape death row only to die Task failed successfully

Imagine throwing your life away over a cigarette

The fact that most American prisoners end up back in jail after getting out just shows how bad of a system it is.

And y'all thought we were "SOOO FRIENDLY" up here in Canada, but here we are locking up friggin' *Polar Bears!!!*

17:36 Inmate: What are you in for? Person: I forgot to pay for my parking ticket.

Polar bear prison? You mean a *ZOO*

Mailed him self out of prison that’s funniest ever prison break I’ve heard lol

The Infographics getting me through Quarantine!! 🙌

3:24 In Mexico, if a prisoner escapes without damaging property nor harming anyone, the time out counts toward the sentence. And the prisoner is not charged with escape. I learned this when I was in jail in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.

What's the point in giving 141,000 years & making her serve 8? Why didn't they just give her 8?

Fact is we have a prison for profit system here. That's why we have such a large incarceration percentage. It pays to keep people locked up.

Normal people when showering: listen to music Me: put this on when i shower

"we sent our researchers" did y'all frame them

I know someone who did 8 months for fishing over the legal limit, it’s insane

1: You cane make one in Minecraft with obsidian and lava.

It's painful and interesting at the same time to hear the way people suffer to unethical inhumane treatment

The eating toothpaste one I know for a fact.. my ex said he used to do just to stop his stomach from hurting, and he was a “bigger” guy.. I can’t imagine what the little guys felt like

As someone who lives in Oklahoma, yes they will absolutely find any reason to put you in jail and rack up more charges. My specific county is avoided by most because of how often traffic stops for 1mph over speeding can turn into a sentence.

If I was a lawmaker in the US I would make this a law: to the persecution Police and Judges ! If you put away a person who is latter find innocent of the crime , the people Who is responsible for said person to lose his/her freedom will have to do an equal amount of time ! They would have to be very careful not to sentence an innocent person or else.....

11:47 me hearing the narrator say, "hold my beer", HAS CLEANSED MY SOUL

"They're trying to build a prison, they're trying to build a prison, they're trying to build a prison, for you and me..." ~ System of a Down

I see a lot of great videos you make about prisons, especially the ones in the US. This makes sense since US imprisons the most people and it's very relevant. However, if you are looking at crazy prison facts globally and throughout the history, you should definitely mention the Gulag system of the USSR. By far, it was one of the most brutal and inhumane prisons systems of the world - I read three books of Archipelago Gugal which covered all the insane facts happening in the prison and here are some facts I learned: -At times, prisoners could be sent to a camp that wasn't even built. They would unload the train in the middle of cold Siberian forest and inmates would have built the camps for themselves. -In one of the coldest regions of the world, prisoners could be build dams, railroads or just chop wood for more than 12 hours a day without gloves, coats, sometimes shoes. Needless to say, people who did this kind of labor, which was majority of the sentenced, died very fast and never got out of the camps. -No trials were ever conducted to most of the prisoners. Most of them were engineers, doctors, intellectuals, and just random people who would get imprisoned in the middle of the night. Some estimate that close to 20% of St. Petersburgh has been sentenced to labor camps. -Some solitary confinement could have water up to the stomach and the person was supposed to spend 2 weeks in there. All of this was done to build the infrastructure of the USSR...the infrastructure that proved to be completely unused...like the currently underused trans-siberian railroad, the "Belomor" canal that doesn't see any ships coming through it and so on. Definetely something that people don't mention as often.

Awesome video bruh!!👍🏼🔥🛹

Here's another little known fact; the Harrison County Jail in Harrison County (Biloxi, Gulfport area) Mississippi was abandoned by the guards during Hurricane Katrina leaving the inmates to fend for themselves with no electricity or food and they weren't checked in on for at least 48 while the water rose around them, rising even in their cells while they were locked away in them and couldn't get out, even to the common area.

Dude escapes Death Row,and dies in a bar fight.

As a person who has never been in jail, I can agree to these facts.

There’s always that one guy that ruins it for everyone

The fact that true monsters get crazies, tons of admirers, and marriage proposals. Charles Manson, Scott Peterson, Chris Watts just to name a few.

I got pulled over ten seconds after crossing the Oklahoma State line. The reason.... not having a light shining on my license plate. My car doesn’t even have a light there.

Fact: Jail and prison are not the same.

One question that still puzzles a lot of people is the fact of how many innocent people were manipulated into pleading guilty for crimes that they never committed

7:50 polar bear prison? In America they have whale prisons... the prison name is Seaworld

One thing: in The Netherlands, the crime rate isn’t necessarily low, it is just that prisons closed because judges are very more likely to sentence a person to community service. Trust me, I live in the Netherlands, and a growing number of people would like the prisons to be reopened.

You can make 50 insane facts about the Mazza prison in Syria alone. Or how about making a video about the Abu Ghuraib prison during the the Saddam Hussein era & post Saddam era.

Congrats on 8 mill subs.

Lol My dad grew up in Churchhill Manitoba. He said it’s no joke you run from polar bears like bullets in Chicago.

Matthew Santoro smilin his way into infographics

fact one: *no bueno*

I got chocked over how little they spent on food for prisoners. In my country the government spends over 3€ on school lunch per student! Also, it's free for students

Gotta make sure that im not a polar bear if I ever go to prison in canada

18:45 Lucille Keppen was the oldest female prisoner in Minnesota, not the oldest female in the country. 97 is a bit young for that.

Congrats on 8 million btw

I haven't kept up with the numbers, but about 12 years ago, the number of people in prison for simple possession was almost exactly the same as the number of people in private for profit prisons- they were literally the only reason the industry exited.

1.- It's been privatised in USA: States must pay fines to the "company" if they dont fill a "minimum quote" 2.- Thats the reason there are "minimum mandatory time" on that country

I’m from Oklahoma and that stat is a little out of context due to the fact that we are a housing state, we have a few prisons that only house ppl from California as well as a major federal hub in OKC

Idk how I feel about the emojis being added these days

Thanks for the hard work, you guys are pumping out so much content.

I half expected Matthew Santoro to narrate this video

I miss the fact that it is legal in Germany to break out of Prison. Because of the Fundermental Law. The Prisoner wants to get his Freedom so its legal to break out of Prison 😂 but every other crime you commit while you're breaking out will be counted. Sorry if my English is Not the Best, its 2 am for me 😅 Edit: I found this, Google is explaining better than i Do 😂 In some countries such as Mexico,Germany and Austria Prison escape is not punishable by law . In Mexico, Germany, Austria the law recognizes that it is basic human nature to escape and hence the act of escaping itself is not a crime, although you may be punished for any other crime that you commit during your escape.

This Title: *exists* Me in ma head: *Did you know that Quarantine has a similar effect to most modern-day prisons? This may not be a surprise to a lot of us.*

That's insane 1/5 of the convicts are innocent??? But believable...

Congrats on 8 mil🥳

Everyone talking about COVID-19 Meanwhile:Infographics show 50 insane facts about prison you won't believe

I do remember in 2012 when I was doing 3 months in the county jail for a DUI and a couple of trespass charges when I was homeless. Haven't ever been to the state prison, I guess none of my charges were severe enough to qualitfy for time in prison. At least for Florida, your sentence would have to be a year and a day or more to qualify for state prison.

Ok but the funniest thing to me about Moondine Joe is that the wardens gave him the tools to break out, as the prison was still under construction being built by the prisoners when he escapes. He just piled up the mined rock high enough for them to not be able to see him and off he went. You can still see the hole in if you go to the Freo Prison.

Been to the Hanoi Hilton and S-21, both cool places to visit but S-21 has a different atmosphere.

Imagine seeing a bear being taken away handcuffed

I love these prison lists!

Did number 16 remind anyone else of the sims..?

The war on drugs. Catchy phrase for anyone who thought it was a brilliant idea at the time. Turned out it was a brutal war, but on the people. Destroyed more than it helped.

You should do what torture weapons they used in the school thing

Escapes Death Row........... The Bar: So you have chosen death 💀

It’s so sad & always will be till the day they realize prison doesn’t cure addictions, it sees their lives so much worse. I don’t understand how ppl can’t think outside the box for a better world

I love your work. How do you DO it?

There's more prison than colleges 😟.

No one: Canada: Let’s build a jail for Polar Bears

Prison needs more Cops and Attorney and maybe some Judges in there.

Hey infographic team, I have a video suggestion. Please do a video on why health care is so expensive in the USA and how does it compare to the price of health care systems all over the world

When I'm early: Billions of people already saw it

Prison mike doing some time at "the clink"

Police: We've got a case of a prisoner arrest for ordering beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, lamb, ram, hot-dogs, chicken, and turkey. Prisoner: Nice rhyming Mr police

When prisons start becoming more about punishment and revenge rather than rehabilitation

If #32 had happened in the US those 23 cops would've gotten a 2+ week paid vacation because their actions would've been justified because "they feared for their safety at the time" and were "following standard procedures"

Hello, so I’m from one of the harshest countries in the world: Libya. I would just like to see some more Vedios about Libya please.

Joe Kaplan; "it's entirely legal" Me; you literally just escaped from prison you bozo

The Sheriff on #44 is a felon himself. Lol

Fact 51 don't be a prisoner.

We have WAY too many people in prison for a "free" country! 😟 We need MAJOR reforms! I recommend legalizing and taxing all drugs, people own their own bodies, and should be able to ingest whatever they want in the privacy of their own homes. Also, non-violent property crimes such as theft or vandalism should be dealt with through community service, work, and education programs where offenders can work to reimburse the victims of said crimes. This would reduce recidivism and lower insurance premiums for all of us, because the thief or vandal would be responsible for making the victim whole rather than insurance companies! Incarceration should be limited to criminals who pose a realistic threat to other people...

You can make a video of Alkatraz escape of the three prisoners!..There are so many rumours about that!

@14:41 I took a tour of that High School/ torture jail in Cambodia back in 1995. I remember the pictures displayed there of the soon to be murdered Cambodians. They were taken by a Cambodian photographer. That photographer Nhem En actually became a well trusted elected politician after the Khmer Rouge lost power there.

Last time I was this early the world was normal!

7:59 I live in Canada and I've never seen a polar bear.

I've only been watching this channel a rew weeks. Excellent for passing time. Thank you

Imagine doing life time and you get out because prisons are full.

I am actually writing a thesis on prisons!

5 min. in and my heart is breaking! and theres more...

Watched one video, now I’m hooked on them

Thank you for opening this list with such mindful and important facts.

*Person escapes prison 4 times* Me: "I escaped maximum security prison in bitlife..!"

The Infographics Show does so many videos on prisons that I'm starting to believe either the channel is run by ex-cons or from within a prison itself.

So close to 8 mil! Great video idea!

6:35 15 gaurds but 23 of them arrested???

I am from the netherlands, cool we got mentioned! 6:16

All those poeple saying prisoners need longer sentences are the same ones that cant stay at there house longer than a month and wanna risk the lives of everyone around them to get haircuts

10:19 Philippines: were like sardines in a can here

Yeah man I got locked up for something I had nothing to do with. I got out an threw up an couldn't sleep for 3days man. Charges got drop an I was out of $7,500 bucks. It really makes you feel different. I did time before 3yrs. But those 32hrs were way worse man I swear