[Prison fact 1] Ramen noodles are now used more in bartering than tobacco products in prison.
[Prison fact 2] In 2017, 4 inmates snuck out of prison (Holmes-Humphreys County), robbed several stores, and then snuck back into prison.
[Prison fact 3] During World War 2, prisoners of war in Canada were treated so nicely that they didn't want to leave Canada when released.
[Prison fact 4] In 1911, Wyoming State Penitentiary All Stars was a baseball team that was made up of death row inmates who had been told that as long as they kept winning games, their executions would be delayed. Their fourth victory, by a score of 15-10, was also their last.
[Prison fact 5] Each day, 12 people die in the United States prison system, or about 4,400 per year. In state and federal prisons, most deaths are health related, such as from cancer and heart disease. In local prisons, the top cause is suicide.
[Prison fact 6] The now infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, involving fake prisoners and guards, investigated the psychological effects of perceived power.
[Prison fact 7] 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 8] 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 9] In 1977, William Kampiles stole a top-secret KH-11 spy satellite manual from the CIA which he sold to the Russians for $3000. He then told the CIA for who he worked for and what he had done in the hopes that they would hire him as a double agent. They didn't and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
[Prison fact 10] A man named Jonathan Fleming was imprisoned for 25 years before a hotel receipt finally proved he could not have been at the scene of the crime he had been falsely convicted for.
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