the world gets even crazier once you’re
behind bars welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten insane things that have
happened in prisons before we begin we
publish new content every day so be sure
to subscribe to our Channel and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’re looking at
specific incidents rather than sweeping
general statements of things that may or
may not have happened
in prisons number 10 pennsylvania fight
clubs in 2011 a scandal broke about a
state correctional institution in
fayette pennsylvania with an
investigation
accusing guards of running a brutal
Fight Club prisoners would be targeted
and forced to take part against their
will
with violent and traumatic results this
came to light after one whistleblower
wrote a letter to external officials the
letter describes witnessing injuries
like quote missing teeth swollen eyes
broken knuckles and broken hands as a
result of this organized Fight Club
worse similar scandals have shaken the
prison system across the entire state of
Pennsylvania with three guards being
charged with abusing prisoners at
another facility in York number nine
deadly fight at maximum security
facility a perfect and terrible storm
brewed in the Lee Correctional
Institution in South Carolina in 2018
when tension between inmates over gangs
cellphones and contraband reached the
boiling point in the fights that broke
out that Sunday evening seven died and
17 more were seriously injured people
were beaten to a pulp and stabbed with
DIY shanks it was already one of the
most dangerous prisons in the US but the
matter was made much worse when
emergency services and additional staff
didn’t arrive for at least four hours
after the fighting began number eight
the gory all girls string band one of
the few genuinely upbeat stories to come
from the American prison system is that
of the gory girls the first all-female
country-and-western group in the US the
twist was that they were all Texas
prison inmates held at the gory unit in
the 1940s the band was the result of one
inmate rebuild childs she had the idea
that by forming a band and performing on
the radio show 30 minutes behind the
walls they could get famous enough to
earn early
parole amazingly this worked and the
eight women eventually saw release at
which point they disbanded unfortunately
without having recorded a single record
number seven white noise torture in 1971
fourteen suspected IRA prisoners held
illegally and without charge in an
internment camp by the British Army were
taken for quote deep interrogation the
men became known as the hooded men and
were subjected to inhuman experiences
being attacked by dogs and thrown out of
helicopters were just some of the
methods used as well as white noise
torture where white noise would
constantly be blasted to stop them from
sleeping or even thinking they
eventually took their case before the
European Court of Human Rights accusing
the British of torture today the
remaining victims are still fighting
their case against the British
government which condoned these brutal
methods number six
tbonz vigilante justice rape is a
problem around the world but in the
prison system it’s always been
particularly nasty that’s why one man a
devoutly Christian ex-marine named
t-bone has been leading his own personal
crusade against prison rapists in the
Arizona Department of State Corrections
standing up for the little guy when
nobody else will t-bone says he’s almost
been killed on multiple occasions and is
constantly threatened despite all this
it’s his faith in God that keeps him
trying to protect vulnerable inmates and
beat up sexual predators since if any of
the victims actually report the crimes
they risk murder for being a rat number
five blood swaps there have been many
horror stories of experiments carried
out in prisons as some consider them to
be a wealth of subjects for all kinds of
research at least in the case of Lewis
boy one prisoner at sing-sing his role
in a bizarre study was entirely
consensual in the late 1940s he
volunteered to take part in some unusual
research to try and cure a young girl of
terminal leukemia their blood was
transfused in the hope that passing her
blood through his system and vice versa
may clean it and cure the disease
unfortunately it didn’t work and the
girl died shortly after but at least
boy’s heart was in the right place
number four skinned for beauty products
the sickening fate of some x”k
prisoners in China was revealed in a
series of gruesome exposes in the early
2000s in 2005 it was reported that
various Chinese cosmetics companies were
using the skin of dead prisoners in the
development of their products and that
products using human materials may have
found their way into European countries
the companies argued that this was quote
traditional and not a taboo in China the
even worst practice of China’s organ
trade was revealed earlier in 2001 every
day there are dozen of people that
executed or killed for organs in China
one doctor claimed that inmates are
sometimes even quote killed to order so
that their organs can be sold to wealthy
people in other parts of the world
number 3 Alva Campbell survives his own
execution facing the death penalty for
the murder of another man during a
robbery gone wrong in 1998 Campbell was
supposed to be executed in late 2017
however because of his chronic heart and
lung problems officials found it next to
impossible to locate a viable vein to
give him the lethal injection with a new
execution date scheduled for 2019
Campbell began appealing arguing that
the injection is a quote cruel and
unusual punishment because of the risk
the drugs may not work he claimed that
attempting to execute him again was
quote unconstitutional however he died
of natural causes just a few months
after the botched execution number two
the Pascal PI a escapes this Frenchman
is one of the world’s most notorious
escape artists famous for his flashy
exits and bad habit of getting himself
caught again after very little time he
even holds the world record for planning
the greatest number of escapes by
helicopter first convicted for a 1997
murder he’s participated in prison
escapes in 2001 2003 and 2007 his
breakouts
as well as crimes committed during his
time as a fugitive have added another 23
years to his original 30-year sentence
he’s one of the closest monitored
prisoners in France and is thought to be
constantly moved in order to stop him
planning yet another escape number one
forced psychedelic trips the CIA has
never been a stranger to cruelty and
controversy but few things have ever
been so scandal
as project MKULTRA a series of
mind-control experiments their most
infamous experiment to ruin the minds of
their enemies involved drugging
unsuspecting Americans with LSD my anger
was unbelievable at how I had been duped
for this length of time many of the
subjects were prisoners who could be
easily observed due to their confinement
as LSD was new and poorly understood in
the 50s and 60s the CIA believed the
drug could give them an edge in the Cold
War but US citizens were the only ones
who suffered as most of the research was
ultimately destroyed we may never know
the full extent of the horrors of
MKULTRA do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
behind bars welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten insane things that have
happened in prisons before we begin we
publish new content every day so be sure
to subscribe to our Channel and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’re looking at
specific incidents rather than sweeping
general statements of things that may or
may not have happened
in prisons number 10 pennsylvania fight
clubs in 2011 a scandal broke about a
state correctional institution in
fayette pennsylvania with an
investigation
accusing guards of running a brutal
Fight Club prisoners would be targeted
and forced to take part against their
will
with violent and traumatic results this
came to light after one whistleblower
wrote a letter to external officials the
letter describes witnessing injuries
like quote missing teeth swollen eyes
broken knuckles and broken hands as a
result of this organized Fight Club
worse similar scandals have shaken the
prison system across the entire state of
Pennsylvania with three guards being
charged with abusing prisoners at
another facility in York number nine
deadly fight at maximum security
facility a perfect and terrible storm
brewed in the Lee Correctional
Institution in South Carolina in 2018
when tension between inmates over gangs
cellphones and contraband reached the
boiling point in the fights that broke
out that Sunday evening seven died and
17 more were seriously injured people
were beaten to a pulp and stabbed with
DIY shanks it was already one of the
most dangerous prisons in the US but the
matter was made much worse when
emergency services and additional staff
didn’t arrive for at least four hours
after the fighting began number eight
the gory all girls string band one of
the few genuinely upbeat stories to come
from the American prison system is that
of the gory girls the first all-female
country-and-western group in the US the
twist was that they were all Texas
prison inmates held at the gory unit in
the 1940s the band was the result of one
inmate rebuild childs she had the idea
that by forming a band and performing on
the radio show 30 minutes behind the
walls they could get famous enough to
earn early
parole amazingly this worked and the
eight women eventually saw release at
which point they disbanded unfortunately
without having recorded a single record
number seven white noise torture in 1971
fourteen suspected IRA prisoners held
illegally and without charge in an
internment camp by the British Army were
taken for quote deep interrogation the
men became known as the hooded men and
were subjected to inhuman experiences
being attacked by dogs and thrown out of
helicopters were just some of the
methods used as well as white noise
torture where white noise would
constantly be blasted to stop them from
sleeping or even thinking they
eventually took their case before the
European Court of Human Rights accusing
the British of torture today the
remaining victims are still fighting
their case against the British
government which condoned these brutal
methods number six
tbonz vigilante justice rape is a
problem around the world but in the
prison system it’s always been
particularly nasty that’s why one man a
devoutly Christian ex-marine named
t-bone has been leading his own personal
crusade against prison rapists in the
Arizona Department of State Corrections
standing up for the little guy when
nobody else will t-bone says he’s almost
been killed on multiple occasions and is
constantly threatened despite all this
it’s his faith in God that keeps him
trying to protect vulnerable inmates and
beat up sexual predators since if any of
the victims actually report the crimes
they risk murder for being a rat number
five blood swaps there have been many
horror stories of experiments carried
out in prisons as some consider them to
be a wealth of subjects for all kinds of
research at least in the case of Lewis
boy one prisoner at sing-sing his role
in a bizarre study was entirely
consensual in the late 1940s he
volunteered to take part in some unusual
research to try and cure a young girl of
terminal leukemia their blood was
transfused in the hope that passing her
blood through his system and vice versa
may clean it and cure the disease
unfortunately it didn’t work and the
girl died shortly after but at least
boy’s heart was in the right place
number four skinned for beauty products
the sickening fate of some x”k
prisoners in China was revealed in a
series of gruesome exposes in the early
2000s in 2005 it was reported that
various Chinese cosmetics companies were
using the skin of dead prisoners in the
development of their products and that
products using human materials may have
found their way into European countries
the companies argued that this was quote
traditional and not a taboo in China the
even worst practice of China’s organ
trade was revealed earlier in 2001 every
day there are dozen of people that
executed or killed for organs in China
one doctor claimed that inmates are
sometimes even quote killed to order so
that their organs can be sold to wealthy
people in other parts of the world
number 3 Alva Campbell survives his own
execution facing the death penalty for
the murder of another man during a
robbery gone wrong in 1998 Campbell was
supposed to be executed in late 2017
however because of his chronic heart and
lung problems officials found it next to
impossible to locate a viable vein to
give him the lethal injection with a new
execution date scheduled for 2019
Campbell began appealing arguing that
the injection is a quote cruel and
unusual punishment because of the risk
the drugs may not work he claimed that
attempting to execute him again was
quote unconstitutional however he died
of natural causes just a few months
after the botched execution number two
the Pascal PI a escapes this Frenchman
is one of the world’s most notorious
escape artists famous for his flashy
exits and bad habit of getting himself
caught again after very little time he
even holds the world record for planning
the greatest number of escapes by
helicopter first convicted for a 1997
murder he’s participated in prison
escapes in 2001 2003 and 2007 his
breakouts
as well as crimes committed during his
time as a fugitive have added another 23
years to his original 30-year sentence
he’s one of the closest monitored
prisoners in France and is thought to be
constantly moved in order to stop him
planning yet another escape number one
forced psychedelic trips the CIA has
never been a stranger to cruelty and
controversy but few things have ever
been so scandal
as project MKULTRA a series of
mind-control experiments their most
infamous experiment to ruin the minds of
their enemies involved drugging
unsuspecting Americans with LSD my anger
was unbelievable at how I had been duped
for this length of time many of the
subjects were prisoners who could be
easily observed due to their confinement
as LSD was new and poorly understood in
the 50s and 60s the CIA believed the
drug could give them an edge in the Cold
War but US citizens were the only ones
who suffered as most of the research was
ultimately destroyed we may never know
the full extent of the horrors of
MKULTRA do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
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