Richard Madeley: Inside the World's Mega Prison

[Bluedot]

Once you get past the fact that it’s not Alan Partridge presenting, this is a genuinely striking documentary.

I won’t spoil what it’s like inside the prison or its history, but it’s deeply eye-opening and, from a Western perspective, quite difficult to fully comprehend.

[Milkyway]

I'm sure that the UK has more than a enough participants who would qualify.
(For at least a trial run... Of an indefinite length).

Edited by Milkyway on Wednesday 17th June 17:21

[hondajack85]

I read about this place and it was a bit chilling.
His trip was less so but does puzzle me still. I have no idea why everyone is just sat there 23hrs a day totally docile.
Apparently non of them are ever getting out so it does seem odd.
Either its just a show for the cameras or they are medicated in some way.
One thought is that they commit all the awful crimes and murders as they are terrified of not following orders. Now they feel safe behind bars.

[J4CKO]

To be fair, he did a good job, he is the square root of Alan Partridge but it was a good watch.

What the fk do they do all day ?

Why are they so placid ?

[fooman]

It was covered in the documentary, they talk about their past lives, it's pretty much all they can do. Kicking off will get you a month solitary with no light or worse, so they don't.

[hondajack85]

fooman said:

It was covered in the documentary, they talk about their past lives, it's pretty much all they can do. Kicking off will get you a month solitary with no light or worse, so they don't.

Im going with they were not born evil sadists and wouldnt do any of that stuff without being terrorized into it,with no autorities to turn to for protection.
They would have a gentle nature naturally . This is why colonial invaders had it so easy commiting their genocides on them.
Madeley is too thick to have much insight into anything.

[Grumbler]

I found this documentary shocking and intriguing. I think they said it took seven months to build a 40,000 person prison. Then just filled it with everyone with gang tattoos. Maybe not fair on some gang newbies who’d barely graduated to the really bad stuff. But incredibly effective. Killings down from 6.2k per year to just 82.
I’m a big believer in rehabilitation, but for serious crimes we should have a version of this. Powerless, hungry and hopeless works for me.
I suspect control is kept through regularly making examples of dissenters (and their cell mates).