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Five of the World's Worst Prisons

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Published 3 Jul 2021

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@Sideprojects3 years ago Thanks to Bespoke Post for sponsoring this video! New subscribers get 20% off their first box go to and enter code [SIDEPROJECTS20] at checkout. 26
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@slimmachin3 years ago All of australia objects to rikers being the largest penal colony. 193
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@jessejacksonbrown42813 years ago Im going to appreciate my freedom a little more this weekend- thanks, simon! 134
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@paulmaddison61933 years ago Prison number 6 - Simon's basement. 137
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@ignitionfrn22233 years ago - Chapter 1 - Sabaneta Prison (Venezuela)
- Chapter 2 - Petak island Prison (Russia)
- Chapter 3 - Riker's island (USA)
- Chapter 4 - Bang kwang prison (Thailand)
- Chapter 5 - La Sant Prison (France) .. ...Expand 48
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@insane_troll3 years ago - "Commonly referred to as the Bangkok Hilton for its terrifying atmosphere and abominable conditions."
So much the same as the hotel chain? .. ...Expand 22
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@SparkBerry3 years ago Wait, has simon ever left this room? Is this also a prison? Does he ever go outside? Is danny in a prison within a prison? 58
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@pamelamays41863 years ago Simon gets free camping gear.
danny gets new break out of the basement tools. 23
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@Rangifulla3 years ago This list makes simon' s basement look like the ritz. 26
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@kenp41243 years ago I remember learning this one in high school: " a society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals. 16
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@Albinoafroman3163 years ago Top worse prison; simon' s dungeon, where danny & callum rot away coming up with script on a commadore 64 with no " e" key. 100
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@denverruff10243 years ago Simon. Thank you. I just found this page, after watching the two others i' ve found with you telling different stories. I' m addicted now. Lol. Thank you. 7
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@MazdaratiMan693 years ago And now my overnight stay in the county jail doesnt seem so bad. 6
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@calendarpage3 years ago Angola prison in louisiana. You can start with the 1998 documentary, #39; the farm: angola, usa' and then determine what, if any, changes there have been since that time. 23
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@TheCorpsehatch3 years ago Now do the business blaze version of this same video. 39
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@thedrifter27903 years ago Simon should review them all in person for varied lengths of time. 47
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@CorpusOrganic3 years ago I still remember reading in a newspaper of the murder rates of a local city. The prison had more murders then the entire city did for that year. 2
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@paddyneill19643 years ago What are they going to do with rikers? Turn it into a luxury living destination charging six figures?
island life . 3
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@jed-henrywitkowski64703 years ago Earlier today, i watched the casual criminalist, where you mentioned a criminal used a gouret to commit his crimes.
then you hold up a wire saw that could be used as such a tool. 1
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@computernaut3 years ago The moral of the story: don' t go to prison. 13
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@jasonm18843 years ago I would like to see a video of the 5 best prisons! 11
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@Robslondon3 years ago Excellent video, i had no idea just how huge rikers island was. 2
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@bateman21123 years ago " what is going on in this prison? "
look, someone' s got to try and take care of endangered species and it' s not like the prisoners . ...Expand 45
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@boggo38483 years ago " oh cool, a new cool channel to binge i wonder if it' s the same gu-quot; 3
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@DiracComb.75853 years ago I only today finished all your sideprojects videos and you post another today? You toy with me simon. 1
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@FayeHunter3 years ago casually continues sipping my Monster Pappion flavor and ignores that 1
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@saradapagediocletian97073 years ago This man is king of youtube. He has so many channels! 1
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@almighty39463 years ago I really love all of your channels simon especially biographics. 2
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@TheAechBomb3 years ago Simon how many channels do you need, my god. 2
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@bigdubya0013 years ago You should do a video on the bath school disaster, in bath, michigan. It' s still the deadliest school attack in american history. 1
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@haroldvoss58863 years ago More and more, the longer and older simon' s bear gets, the more he is looking like " odd ball" from the clint eastwood moviehero' s"
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@Supernaut20003 years ago What do you expect? This isnt a 5 star resort. 2
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@stevenphillips35063 years ago Some people would argue that these prisons are working as intended and nobody does a grim prison better than the russians. 9
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@SlapShotRegatta223 years ago Project iceworm & camp century, greenland.
you won' t be disappointed! 1
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@avoidpodcastsounddesign3 years ago Thank you, simon. Keep up the great work!
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@HalfBloodPharaoh3 years ago You should do a biographics on the papillon story. 1
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@PeterCombs3 years ago Hey simon. You forgot qincheng prison in china. 5
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@RIlianP3 years ago Never imagined simon liking camping or using a knife with skinning hook for its intended purposes.
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@user-ot7mu7ny1k3 years ago Love you simon, but leave it to a european parson to not recognize an ammo can and call it some sort of waterproof box. 1
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@trevornewton26463 years ago Diyarbakir prison ia apparently quite a gem as well. I used to drive by it a couple of times a day while working in the area.
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@Adammrtl273 years ago Anyone else get a christmas commercial? That was a blow to my happy summer thinking.
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@eddietat953 years ago The un detention unit at the hague is the worst of them all. Slobodan miloevi once ordered a charbroiled kobe fillet with a bordeaux and instead he was forced to settle for an american porterhouse with ros. The horror! 1
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@warchitect733 years ago In regards to your bespoke box: its not an waterproof case. Its a box for bullets. 1
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@valentinadeboaventura63193 years ago There is a prison in venezuela that has a discoteque, bank, restaurant, zoo, etc. Etc. The interesting thing is that when a girl od at the discoteque, . ...Expand
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@joeywall46573 years ago Oh boy. This one looks like it' s going to be such a good time lol.
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@waffles43223 years ago Pretty surprised you didnt touch black dolphin. 6
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@fwef74453 years ago Of course simon knows best having spent time in all of them. 1
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@bluegold10263 years ago I' m sure there are plenty more notorious prisons out there in the world than the ones mentioned in the vid. 1
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@philippvoid18003 years ago Watching this by smoking a joint and enjoying a cold drink makes the difference.
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@cheesyc46143 years ago Would be sweet if you' d do a video of the most notorious prisoners as well?
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@wcarter2583 years ago Can we talk about him referring to the ammo box as a briefcase. 7
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@willleigh92526 months ago In regards to staff/inmate ratio, at the state prison that i used to work at, we had an imate population of roughly 1, 500. At our lowest, my shift (alpha . ...Expand
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@tabbysmithfield37943 years ago Damn! And i thought eldorado/rdu was bad! 3
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@KraigFang3 years ago Great vids! Awesome channel! My only recommendation would be to turn up the volume a few more notches in editing. Hey, im no expert so please know thi . ...Expand
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@debatable19843 years ago The question isnt whats going on in that prison, its whos in it.
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@Kiefsti3 years ago This reminds me that i live, within walking distance, to a very minimal security prison that holds a few murders.
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@vbw45513 years ago What' s the music whenever simon mentions soviet?
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@masturch33f873 years ago Is there a list of all the channels simon is on? Love the guy i just wanna know where to find him? Xd.
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@moonlightalchemist3 years ago Simon' s bespoke post knife has a gut hook! I didn' t know you were a hunter, simon. Although living in the country with the second highest firearm . ...Expand 3
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@FlesHBoX3 years ago Everybody knows that the worst prison is klescher rehabilitation facility. You gotta mine to earn credits to buy your way out, but there are no guards . ...Expand
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@JohnSmith-eo5sp3 years ago Hey simon, why no mention of lura gancha of peru?
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@offthewall99883 years ago You started out cheerful and a little apprehensive then it was downhill from there to the bitter solemn end. Cheer up buddy!
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@keck20013 years ago Think you should do a video over angola state prison in louisiana.
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@drboze67813 years ago Some of the daily routines arefrom being in camp.
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@ShredwardWizardhands3 years ago Thatcase" appears to be an ammo can. Cheers from america.
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@paulroberts36393 years ago Here is a bucket list to end all bucket lists. Tour these five and survive.
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@IrishMike223 years ago I worked in the largest jail in the world (men' s central jail in los angeles county) for years. That place is a dungeon. As a first assignment it really opened my eyes. It really should be on this list. 4
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@dcanmore2 years ago There' s a weird baroque prison in wales that you can' t escape from because it' s patrolled by balloons.
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@fredericrike59743 years ago Do any bespoke boxes come with blaze beard oil? Fr.
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@ozzbud90493 years ago For people who want to spend money but can' twill spend your money for you!
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@twocvbloke3 years ago I feel sorry for danny now, cos simon has a knife to keep him in his basement prison. P.
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@BytebroUK3 years ago Question - does a faraday cage need to be grounded? Or does just wrapping stuff in a conductive box enough?
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@HyperactiveNeuronlast year The worst part of rikers island is it' s record in dealing with mental illness. They have a terrible record of lumping the mentally ill in with everyone else which as you can imagine doesn' t work out well.
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@GeraldBlack13 years ago Somebody send simon some free band-aids!
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@vexedemperor55883 years ago Im surprised simons basement isnt number one.
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@peterolbrisch16533 years ago Well it seems as if we have reached a semantical disagreement. What you call the worst, i call the best. 1
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@colintimp13723 years ago And shockingly, it costs $65, 0 per inmate per year at rikers; yet we expect people to survive on $7. 25 an hour.
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@greyinglis75703 years ago It' s good that simon stopped playing the field and settled down with a nice advertiser.
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@donaldseekins65163 years ago Simon should include insein prison, north of yangon, myanmar' s largest city. A hell for politics prisoners.
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@danieljudin39503 years ago I' m a law student in south africa but owing to the approach of my uni, i have so much time. Can i get an opportunity to use my writing and researching skills in my spare time? 1
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@djdrack46813 years ago How about a video on the greatest death tolls from famine/food shortages.
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@oddball_the_blue3 years ago simonvideo is. " youtube cuts to ' raid: shadow legends' advert.
about right for simon by this point.
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@robertwalker-smith27393 years ago In the early 19th century, prison reformers in pennsylvania replaced the then-current barbaric environment with an explicitlymodel. prisoners were kept in solitary confinement to enable them to reflect and repent of their crimes.
it was discovered that this was even more damaging to their mental and emotional health than the cruel treatment it replaced. ...Expand 5
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@jed-henrywitkowski64703 years ago I did enjoy this video. It was almost captivating.
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@josephdoublin34793 years ago I had bespoke and all the boxes were small and not as advertised.
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@soknightsam3 years ago Makes staying at home for a year not seem so bad.
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@harrysweeten94173 years ago Even a cage made of gold is still a cage.
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@bagerklestyne3 years ago As a screw in a different jurisdiction than listed, they' re definitely not friendly places at the best of times. Glad i work where i work now and i' ll . ...Expand
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@aregularperson75733 years ago The answer is basically any prison in south america most of asia and africa and basically every prison except some prisons in europe. 18
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@MrAbraxus6663 years ago Interesting factoid about the last public french execution. In the crowd was a young english man, who' d go on to join the sas in ww2 and then become the absolutely banging actor we all knew and loved: christopher lee.
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@Dolly-bc1dy3 years ago Another simon channel i didnt know existed.
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@anonymousrex52073 years ago The best way to avoid dealing with prisons like these is to not commit crimes. No sympathy for these people as they clearly made their choices in life. 1
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@nealhoffman75183 years ago With nyc property values i' m continually shocked that they don' t shut down rikers and build swanky riverside apartments.
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@marylandmarijuanareview87622 years ago Video starts at to pass the promotions. 1
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@em1osmurf3 years ago Never seen a hand dandy knife with a gut blade. Cool. Be careful: you' re getting good with your ads. Edit: dude! I thought for sureangola would be on the list!