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  • Lunch at Toughest Taiwan Prison | Taichung Men´s Prison | Short Documentary
    The Taichung Men´s Prison is the biggest and toughest prison in Taiwan. It houses four and a half thousand inmates. Among them some of the most dangerous criminals of the whole country. Over a hundred life sentences alone and more than a thousand prisoners are serving sentences of twenty years or more.
    Monotony, confinement and around the clock video surveillance everywhere dictate the lives of the inmates. Only one time a week the inmates are allowed to spend time on the yard.
    The prison works with what is known as progressive correctional treatment. This means that prisoners are divided into four levels. The better a prisoner behaves, the higher their level. And this determines, for example, how many packs of cigarettes a prisoner can buy and how often he is allowed to have visitors. The most important thing, however, is that the length of imprisonment is reduced with each level obtained. For most prisoners, this is a good reason to cause as little trouble as possible.
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Komentáře • 185

  • @user-lc5uo5uj2f
    @user-lc5uo5uj2f Před 2 měsíci +445

    That prison food is better than what my ex makes.

    • @Pikachuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
      @Pikachuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Před měsícem +2

      Lmao 😂😂

    • @Bytional
      @Bytional Před měsícem +11

      Because in prison they want you to be healthy, the last thing they want is you got sick and even died in prison.
      Your ex on other hand.......

    • @XYLENE594
      @XYLENE594 Před měsícem

      Is she an ex cause she didn’t cook very well?

    • @bamdingayan3906
      @bamdingayan3906 Před měsícem

      😂😂😂😂

    • @DAndyLord
      @DAndyLord Před měsícem

      I recently started dating a woman who's vegetarian for religious reasons. She's not a fantastic cook to begin with. She keeps insisting on cooking me dishes with meat, to which I really appreciate the gesture, but I've told her so many times I'm happy to eat veg.
      She really likes my cooking, but wants to cook for me.
      She doesn't like when I cook for her because I clean while I cook, so there's nothing for her to do other than eat.

  • @jeffreytsai5767
    @jeffreytsai5767 Před měsícem +102

    5:00 the way the prison guard was greeted is super interesting. Every Taiwanese man learns it in basic training in the army, the prison system almost resorts back to what these men learned during their mandatory military training.

    • @justinyang21114798
      @justinyang21114798 Před 28 dny +3

      I am serving my military service right now and I completely agree especially the S 型報數

    • @jeffreytsai5767
      @jeffreytsai5767 Před 28 dny

      @@justinyang21114798 Thank you for your service, hang in there! I finished mine not too long ago. I noticed that his uniform has multiple 梅花 lookin things on it. A colonel (上校) wears 3 梅花s, and there isn't a rank with 4, so I'm not sure what that is.

    • @leeshenshun
      @leeshenshun Před 14 dny

      They probably only "behaved" 'cause the camera crew was there

    • @asdasdadwssx
      @asdasdadwssx Před 3 dny +1

      @@leeshenshun
      As a prison guard in Taiwan, I can tell you that reality is not much different from the movies.
      In order to control the number of people, the first thing every prison guard does when they come in is roll call.
      and implement stricter militarized management.

  • @RJ-se9op
    @RJ-se9op Před měsícem +53

    it's super humanistic for them to allow outside food in everyday.

    • @eleganz
      @eleganz Před 25 dny +1

      not very humanistic to the people who lost their lives to criminals.

    • @theslayer794
      @theslayer794 Před 19 dny +4

      @@eleganz Eye for an eye will just lead to more hatred and no rehabilitation. Scandinavian countries are often considered models of successful incarceration practices, particularly Norway which, at 20%, has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world.

    • @SunTzu_0
      @SunTzu_0 Před 2 dny

      @@eleganz whats not humanistic about locking up criminals ?

  • @ericduan19
    @ericduan19 Před 20 dny +10

    The atmosphere in Taiwanese prisons is actually more calm & friendly as you might think. Between inmates, they address each other as "classmate", the guards would also address them as "classmate" and usually don't speak to them in an oppressive away. It's like a school that really sucked & class is never over.

  • @mrt55flexxm17
    @mrt55flexxm17 Před měsícem +24

    This prison is 100 times better than any USA one

  • @JeremyToot
    @JeremyToot Před měsícem +31

    As someone who was in prison in china for 4 years, this is heaven…

    • @r.s7144
      @r.s7144 Před měsícem +5

      Why were u in there

    • @usforcessupporter
      @usforcessupporter Před 19 dny

      Forget about prison in Taiwan, Taiwan itself is like a third world country. No one wants to live there.

  • @JesseComments
    @JesseComments Před měsícem +87

    This place looks chill compared to the prison i was sentenced to in Michigan USA

    • @mksteele99
      @mksteele99 Před měsícem +27

      America is the only developed country that uses prison as punishment; every other country uses it as rehabilitation, as place to better yourself and prepare you to be a good citizen. There's a reason why the US leads the world in incarcerated citizens; it's BIG business, most prisons are now privatized and for profit.

    • @LastBastion
      @LastBastion Před měsícem +6

      @@mksteele99 only?

    • @diggingmystyle
      @diggingmystyle Před měsícem +3

      @@LastBastion there aren't that many "developed" countries in the world. Some are in the "developing" stage while most will stay 3rd world for a long while.

    • @Baebon6259
      @Baebon6259 Před 27 dny

      @@mksteele99 Only America? I guess you don't see Russia as developed country then. That's cool too.

  • @kaffir76
    @kaffir76 Před 2 měsíci +74

    2:35 outside food? Whaaat? 😂😂

    • @Youtubesuckshitt
      @Youtubesuckshitt Před 2 měsíci

      It's more like boarding school than prison lol. They get their own rooms as well

  • @The_Comedian556
    @The_Comedian556 Před měsícem +16

    1:52 "they search it thoroughly"
    LOL

    • @Stackpackflipper
      @Stackpackflipper Před měsícem

      Lmao what an unhinged response when dealing with food

    • @Oybon200
      @Oybon200 Před 21 dnem

      like that one scene from the grand budapest hotel

  • @keith7173
    @keith7173 Před měsícem +33

    Haha the ciggy brand is called Longlife

    • @jennychuang808
      @jennychuang808 Před měsícem +3

      It is the most popular cigarette brand in Taiwan

  • @convenientfriend
    @convenientfriend Před měsícem +14

    this prison is a lot better than many even in SEA

    • @Junafa1947
      @Junafa1947 Před 18 dny +1

      Singapore is better but I still don't want to go to Prison

  • @rampar77
    @rampar77 Před 2 měsíci +59

    That is better than country club, outside everyday? That was great risk and extra work for guards. Those foods didn't look bad to me.

    • @beethao9380
      @beethao9380 Před 2 měsíci +1

      considering that manual labor may not be a thing for the prisoners, the food should do just fine.

  • @ColumbusRangnamei
    @ColumbusRangnamei Před 2 měsíci +131

    Try searching Madagascar jail documentary, they will thank god and their fate that they are in this jail.

  • @jirajira2872
    @jirajira2872 Před měsícem +10

    this could be one of the world best prison

  • @kennyphun1946
    @kennyphun1946 Před měsícem +11

    Damn they are eating better than I am 😢

  • @nedhappily
    @nedhappily Před měsícem +22

    Looks better than school meal in North America

  • @ihavechocolate8718
    @ihavechocolate8718 Před měsícem +13

    this looks more like a dorm than a prison lmao

  • @mrgreen4688
    @mrgreen4688 Před měsícem +25

    outside food is nuts. just mix the drugs into the food. not the pills just make a powder or liquid and mix into rice. prisoner will be able to dose it themself over time.

    • @kospencer1
      @kospencer1 Před měsícem +4

      If caught, they lose the merit point for being able to make purchase from prison store and receive outside food, so why risk it?

    • @khent712
      @khent712 Před 25 dny +1

      Better to not end up in prison in the first place.

  • @76678-m
    @76678-m Před 19 hodinami +1

    I taught in a Taiwanese high school and elementary school for two years. The schools look exactly the same as the prisons.

  • @yl1737
    @yl1737 Před měsícem +10

    better than any American school lunch

  • @freespeech198
    @freespeech198 Před 2 měsíci +65

    Looks better than a lot of prisons

  • @brucel.554
    @brucel.554 Před 2 měsíci +13

    Man, this is better than being homeless!

  • @A.C.C13
    @A.C.C13 Před měsícem +10

    $150 per month plus that food in prison is comfortable living honestly.

  • @user-ol8nq1wz2f
    @user-ol8nq1wz2f Před měsícem +2

    If you have enough money, you can get lobster and steak the same goes for sorghum wine and Louis XIII the premise is that you are a gang boss outside.

  • @RichTheNarrator
    @RichTheNarrator Před 2 měsíci +54

    Way better than USA prison food 🙃

    • @simplerelaxation9743
      @simplerelaxation9743 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Hahaha you don't know what are you talking about

    • @RichTheNarrator
      @RichTheNarrator Před 2 měsíci +12

      @@simplerelaxation9743 yes I do, in USA you don't get to just have as much as you want for starters. And in USA nothing is fresh like that, all frozen processed garbage. But please enlighten me

    • @harveythecat
      @harveythecat Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@simplerelaxation9743 Do you?

    • @Fivefingas
      @Fivefingas Před měsícem

      @@harveythecat 😅😂

    • @psyo123
      @psyo123 Před měsícem +2

      way better than USA school food

  • @caramelrhapsodyjesseslife

    That prison-issued food looked really good to me!

  • @mackdog3270
    @mackdog3270 Před 28 dny +1

    That doesn't look too bad for a prison. I suspect a prison like that wouldn't last very long in the US.

  • @stingray9225
    @stingray9225 Před 2 měsíci +27

    Looks like a men's holiday camp.

  • @lulubell31
    @lulubell31 Před měsícem +13

    Sooo instead of living in my car and eating nothing on some days (while working) I can come here and have it all? Sign me up!

    • @riadyl3311
      @riadyl3311 Před měsícem +2

      Hav you heard of Norway?

    • @Horde334
      @Horde334 Před měsícem +1

      24hr surveillance, surrounded by possibly violent criminals, being surveyed by guards every 2 hours.....you must be delusional.....

    • @MacNCheese69
      @MacNCheese69 Před měsícem

      @@Horde334Some people are so poor that they don’t know how good they have it.

    • @leviathan71889
      @leviathan71889 Před měsícem

      ​@riadyl3311 yeah prisoners in Norway live like kings

  • @Behappy_0623
    @Behappy_0623 Před měsícem +18

    太美麗了,把監獄生活美化了

    • @toocola6992
      @toocola6992 Před měsícem +2

      想到政府花錢拍的鹹水雞的滋味,超級寫實😂

  • @TonyP0425
    @TonyP0425 Před 2 měsíci +16

    This is paradise compared to CECOT El Salvador 🇸🇻, Madagascar 🇲🇬, and last the fire island Russia 🇷🇺

    • @Kitty12352
      @Kitty12352 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Also include deadly Indian prisons

    • @darshp800
      @darshp800 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Nothing can beat Madagascar Prison.😂

    • @TonyP0425
      @TonyP0425 Před měsícem +1

      @@darshp800 don’t forget North Korea prison camp

  • @level1selamat155
    @level1selamat155 Před 28 dny +1

    Thanks a lot for this informative video...that guy wqs lucky to get 2 visitors a month

  • @MJLStudios
    @MJLStudios Před měsícem +6

    Toughest prison? That's a free holiday lodge....

  • @Boston1995-y9f
    @Boston1995-y9f Před 16 dny

    Their food actually looks good. I dont know what they're complaining about.

  • @Joe-xr3ir
    @Joe-xr3ir Před měsícem +5

    Looks like a place I would willing go to get away from the wife.

  • @Jroc3578
    @Jroc3578 Před měsícem +10

    I'm trying to make reservations for this hotel but I can't find it. I'd like to try all the delicious foods and activities! It looks like adult summer camp! Hope to see you there as soon as I figure out the reservations! Love from St. Louis!

  • @chinaboss6683
    @chinaboss6683 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Looks like Chuck-E- Cheese compared to LA County.

  • @itsjosephjavier
    @itsjosephjavier Před měsícem +3

    this just looks like my university but better

  • @karbbbb6279
    @karbbbb6279 Před 2 měsíci +13

    Is this prison or hostel

  • @spooneater9001
    @spooneater9001 Před měsícem +6

    4:30 imagine having $150 leftover with every other living expense taken care of

    • @sesameseedbar8853
      @sesameseedbar8853 Před měsícem +1

      I mean you can do that by having a job. If you have a good one, you can have thousands left over after living expenses.

  • @toontoon8039
    @toontoon8039 Před měsícem +1

    the food they eat is much better than what i eat daily....

  • @edbuscus360
    @edbuscus360 Před měsícem +1

    Alright toughest Taiwan prison vs toughest Russian prison.

  • @davidgoldsen8504
    @davidgoldsen8504 Před měsícem +3

    Looks more like military selection

  • @user-hu4rv7ov4s
    @user-hu4rv7ov4s Před 17 dny +1

    toughest? this looks like a summer camp.....

  • @DontTickle
    @DontTickle Před měsícem +2

    This place looks like a resort ahaha

  • @lqfr8813
    @lqfr8813 Před 5 dny

    i mean, would they want to break out of prison if some of them doesnt have any place to stay or food to eat outside?

  • @pmushroom5437
    @pmushroom5437 Před měsícem +2

    thats like 3star hotel...and free sumnmore..

  • @J_GoTTi
    @J_GoTTi Před měsícem +1

    I would miss pillows, music, good food, and conversation with family in prison.

  • @98765432123456789000
    @98765432123456789000 Před 28 dny +1

    super humane prison, everyone is accommodated based on merit. Looks super chill overall, but i do wonder how guards maintain the inmates being so well disciplined and behaved...

  • @chrisglover2697
    @chrisglover2697 Před 13 dny +1

    Cheap oriental food cooked locally usually is western world restaurant quality

  • @pingflores5327
    @pingflores5327 Před měsícem +3

    Impressive

  • @sherryfu9287
    @sherryfu9287 Před měsícem +1

    Looks like a school

  • @wang1888
    @wang1888 Před 27 dny +1

    Not a bad place compared to the others.

  • @user-qv7mt5ec4j
    @user-qv7mt5ec4j Před měsícem +4

    Too good already compare to Singapore

  • @bayjustin3885
    @bayjustin3885 Před 27 dny

    He buys u toothpaste …
    U gotta swallow his toothpaste.
    They them rules in prison.
    Anywhere u go…
    It is known 😮

  • @tzoninghard2425
    @tzoninghard2425 Před měsícem +1

    Bro they in a hotel not a prison lol

  • @itsBINGO357
    @itsBINGO357 Před měsícem +3

    The moral of the story kids is don't get caught.

  • @Impeccablechicken
    @Impeccablechicken Před 22 dny

    My family business supplies food to prisons and I can vouch that the food is of high quality like the ones purchased by restaurants 😀

  • @donkinzett3961
    @donkinzett3961 Před měsícem +1

    Food looks OK?

  • @moeflee6459
    @moeflee6459 Před 2 měsíci +7

    They really need prison like this in the US.

    • @MomMom4Cubs
      @MomMom4Cubs Před 2 měsíci +2

      Maybe except for the homemade outside food. That seems like a giant security and allergen risk.

  • @beethao9380
    @beethao9380 Před 2 měsíci +5

    "held accountable." Not in the US

  • @martinh619
    @martinh619 Před měsícem +2

    Better than coffin home in hongkong

  • @omkarchandrashekhargadgil8168

    I guess nobody gets their tofu in one piece

  • @yeoweian9523
    @yeoweian9523 Před měsícem +1

    They can smoke too?

    • @SafetyOfficer1337
      @SafetyOfficer1337 Před měsícem +2

      in asian prison mostly yes u can smoke if u got someone pay for it. ive been in that taiwan prison, doesnt bad, the food is good, more like men camp and rehabilitation. and now i am a better man, with good job, spent 6 yrs

  • @purpleblah2
    @purpleblah2 Před měsícem +1

    Why does the prison look like a converted school?

  • @lutomson3496
    @lutomson3496 Před měsícem +2

    kind of laughing it looks like a nice place to be, here in California there is no smoking in any prison by prisoners funny that they allow it there

  • @fumiakiyoshioka2823
    @fumiakiyoshioka2823 Před měsícem +1

    こんなんで再犯率下がるんだろうか?監房が狭くて汚い以外は楽勝だろ。ウチの会社よりゆるいと思う。
    刑務作業に刃物を使用させたり、差し入れを許可したりと刑務所が囚人に一定の自由と責任を与えて、すごく信頼してるのが分かる。でも看守長さんの顔面に傷があるのがすごく気になった。

  • @helloworld12
    @helloworld12 Před 2 měsíci +9

    He looks like a movie star wow

  • @Junafa1947
    @Junafa1947 Před 18 dny

    And they say Singapore is expensive

  • @aaroncheow4814
    @aaroncheow4814 Před měsícem +2

    Subtitles would've been better rather than voiceover/dubbing, intonation of speech is important.

  • @bursegsardaukar
    @bursegsardaukar Před 2 měsíci +4

    Where's the guy that beheaded a 4 year old girl in 2016? Or is he not locked up in this prison?

  • @CelticConservative
    @CelticConservative Před 19 dny

    You can't get cigarettes in American prison anymore

  • @777glizzy
    @777glizzy Před měsícem

    Ray is gonna end up in here 😂

  • @paulmoro796
    @paulmoro796 Před 2 dny

    5000 元 is way more than 150$ it's almost 800$ maybe more

  • @jezzicajezzica
    @jezzicajezzica Před měsícem +3

    This is a very humane prison

  • @user-ko4yt4nn2w
    @user-ko4yt4nn2w Před 2 dny

    5000 waun is like 5 bucks

  • @michaelribbons6167
    @michaelribbons6167 Před 15 dny

    Respect 11:11 AAM

  • @ivantan5690
    @ivantan5690 Před měsícem +1

    Feels more like a hostel than a prison.......... What a joke

  • @2centsam927
    @2centsam927 Před 2 měsíci +3

    So,.... they are unhappy with their meals? If they had remained outside, they could dine on whatsoever they want

    • @ianhomerpura8937
      @ianhomerpura8937 Před měsícem

      Yep. They know having bland meals are part of the punishment.

  • @clifordakoyo406
    @clifordakoyo406 Před měsícem

    🍕edibles😃🥦

  • @Dieselpwr
    @Dieselpwr Před měsícem +2

    How is is it the US system is so poor

    • @PapaFunDip
      @PapaFunDip Před měsícem

      because prisons in the US are run for profit.

    • @sesameseedbar8853
      @sesameseedbar8853 Před měsícem

      Because these prisons are state owned.
      Most US prisons are privately owned and do whatever they can to pinch a few bucks to make more money.

  • @lil----lil
    @lil----lil Před měsícem +5

    Lol. Taiwan's government is TOO nice to the prisoners. Why go through ALL of this trouble? EAT what you're given. REPENT and DON'T come back. Don't make it too complicated. Smh.

    • @kutter_ttl6786
      @kutter_ttl6786 Před měsícem

      If you think Taiwan is nice, you should check out the Norwegian prisons.

    • @roastpork5437
      @roastpork5437 Před měsícem +6

      I had that the exact same thought until I saw that it's a reward system to promote good behavior. Prisoners who behave can get more foods from their relatives and friends than those who don't behave. It's more work for the warden crew but this has a huge benefit of more obedient inmates and thus reducing more punitive actions being doled out. Punishments tend to lead to more angry and disobedient prisoners.

    • @HuskyAim
      @HuskyAim Před měsícem +2

      Prison should not be just a way to punish people. There needs to be a rehabilitation component otherwise you will just get repeat offenders. People like you, sadly, have dictated the way prisons work in the USA. You would rather keep incarcerating people instead of creating functional members of society.

  • @willyword3413
    @willyword3413 Před měsícem

    5000 yuan isnt 150 dollars thats like almost 700 usd per month

    • @k1liu
      @k1liu Před měsícem +3

      You're confusing NTD and RMB, Taiwan and China use different currencies

    • @willyword3413
      @willyword3413 Před měsícem

      @@k1liu Ahh Sorry I always confused the dump that is the CCP. Place is a dump

    • @sesameseedbar8853
      @sesameseedbar8853 Před měsícem +2

      Taiwan and China use different currencies, however both are called the Yuan in language form.
      $5000 (NTD) is roughly $190 Australian dollars, it’s pretty much 21-1, for US it’s about 30-1.
      The average salary in Taiwan is roughly $350-$450 USD a week, so what he gets sent, is the average persons weekly spending money outside.

  • @o.o5603
    @o.o5603 Před měsícem +1

    They aren’t tough, they are cowards , scam innocent ppl money

  • @wilsonlee558
    @wilsonlee558 Před měsícem

    I also have no freedom to eat what I want to eat. Just eat whatever my wife makes .

  • @MERC905
    @MERC905 Před měsícem

    say no to animé guys

  • @MK384
    @MK384 Před měsícem +1

    Taiwan is the real China for sure

  • @HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat

    :000

  • @marvinseanterry9200
    @marvinseanterry9200 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Check Philippines prisons. Then tell me. 😂

  • @xijinpig7978
    @xijinpig7978 Před měsícem +14

    I Xi jinping want to try Taiwan prison food
    please capture me