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This Bolivian Drug Trafficking Prison Has Got To Be The Strangest Jail In The World
In the heart of La Paz city, in west Bolivia, lies one of the strangest and most backwards prisons in the world.
San Pedro Prison, home to 3000 male convicts, is rife with criminal activity such as the production of cocaine, the electrocution of sex offenders.
It was made famous by Australian author Rusty Young, whose 2003 book Marching Powder opened up about the drug-trafficking and crimes that continuously run throughout the prison. After 12 years, Young returned to the jail and nothing much had changed.
The bizarre place has no real security system, with the prisoners calling the shots themselves in a sort of self-declared sovereignty. The guards only patrol the exterior of the prison and their only job is policing escapees.
Bizarrely some of the purest cocaine in the country comes from within the prison itself, external guards taking bribes to supply the manufacturers within the prison walls. Prisoners must pay for their own rooms in San Pedro and the sale of cocaine provides the best income of cash rather than kitchen or cleaning jobs.
Children can apparently be seen playing video games and wondering around the place as families of inmates are actually considered safer on the inside of the prison, rather than being left on the streets of La Paz.
Despite this being the case it's not completely safe (as you'd probably expect) and In 2013 there were reports of a 12-year-old girl being raped and impregnated by a group on inmates.
However, the inmates don't tend to tolerate any sexual offenders or molesters and these offenders are often dragged, beaten and stabbed in a small concrete well before being electrocuted in front of a crowd.
Despite the ridiculousness of the prison, it is cheap to run as it is funded by the inmates rather than the government, so every cloud, I guess.
http://www.theladbible.com/articles...-got-to-be-the-strangest-prison-in-the-world?
In the heart of La Paz city, in west Bolivia, lies one of the strangest and most backwards prisons in the world.
San Pedro Prison, home to 3000 male convicts, is rife with criminal activity such as the production of cocaine, the electrocution of sex offenders.
It was made famous by Australian author Rusty Young, whose 2003 book Marching Powder opened up about the drug-trafficking and crimes that continuously run throughout the prison. After 12 years, Young returned to the jail and nothing much had changed.
The bizarre place has no real security system, with the prisoners calling the shots themselves in a sort of self-declared sovereignty. The guards only patrol the exterior of the prison and their only job is policing escapees.
Bizarrely some of the purest cocaine in the country comes from within the prison itself, external guards taking bribes to supply the manufacturers within the prison walls. Prisoners must pay for their own rooms in San Pedro and the sale of cocaine provides the best income of cash rather than kitchen or cleaning jobs.
Children can apparently be seen playing video games and wondering around the place as families of inmates are actually considered safer on the inside of the prison, rather than being left on the streets of La Paz.
Despite this being the case it's not completely safe (as you'd probably expect) and In 2013 there were reports of a 12-year-old girl being raped and impregnated by a group on inmates.
However, the inmates don't tend to tolerate any sexual offenders or molesters and these offenders are often dragged, beaten and stabbed in a small concrete well before being electrocuted in front of a crowd.
Despite the ridiculousness of the prison, it is cheap to run as it is funded by the inmates rather than the government, so every cloud, I guess.
http://www.theladbible.com/articles...-got-to-be-the-strangest-prison-in-the-world?
