[Prison fact 1] An American POW (Jeremiah A Denton) in Vietnam blinked the Morse code for TORTURE during a propaganda interview.
[Prison fact 2] Alcatraz's prison guards created the myths about man-eating sharks and the deadly waters of San Francisco to discourage prisoners from escaping. There is only one recorded shark fatality in San Francisco which took place back in 1959.
[Prison fact 3] 2 students were arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison, in Portugal for "raising a toast to freedom" in 1960. The news of this inspired British lawyer Peter Benenson to lay down the foundation for one of the largest human rights organizations in the world, the Amnesty International.
[Prison fact 4] An increasing number of elderly Japanese people are committing small crimes so they can live in prison for free. People aged more than 65 now make up more than a quarter of the prison population in Japan.
[Prison fact 5] Former death row inmate Betty Lou Beets, shot her first husband, shot her second husband twice, ran her third husband over and also murdered her fourth and fifth husbands.
[Prison fact 6] It’s not a crime to escape prison in Germany and Belgium, because according to their constitution freedom is a basic human right.
[Prison fact 7] Alcatraz was the only federal prison at the time to offer hot-water showers for its inmates because the prison staff felt the inmates would find the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay almost impossible to withstand during an escape attempt.
[Prison fact 8] At Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), a maximum security prison in the Philippines, inmates perform dance routines and some have even become online celebrities known as the CPDRC dancers.
[Prison fact 9] Texas no longer offers a special "last meal" to condemned inmates. Instead, the inmate is offered the same meal served to the rest of the unit.
[Prison fact 10] While filming Tokyo Drift, they couldn't get a permit to film a scene. They filmed it anyway, and the studio hired a fall guy to claim to be the director and spend a night in jail.
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