World’s Toughest Maximum Security Prisons - Big Bigger Biggest (Part 1)
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- Holding 1400 of America’s most dangerous prisoners, the North Branch Correctional Institution is one of the most secure prisons in the world. Over two thirds of the men at the prison have killed and most dream of escape. They are locked up in cells able to withstand bomb blasts and the prison is brimming with technology designed to keep them safe from each other. This film explores how the prison was made possible through a series of four historic engineering breakthroughs. We analyse the inner workings of four landmark prisons, including the formidable Tower of London and infamous Alcatraz Island. Each features a major technological innovation that allowed engineers to build more secure prisons, through development of perimeter fortifications, layers of surveillance, and impenetrable cell design. Using computer generated animation we reveal the incredible stories behind these prisons and the inventions that have enabled them to become more secure. Four ingenious leaps forward that enabled prisons to become SAFER, TOUGHER, and BIGGER!
00:00 Introduction
02:51 Fortification - Tower of London
13:52 Surveillance - Eastern State Penitentiary
22:30 Cells - Alcatraz Island
36:17 Riot Control - North Branch Correctional Institution
Episode from the “Big Bigger Biggest” documentary series exploring the engineering breakthroughs that have enabled us to develop some of the largest structures in existence.
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Yup, fine community policing, alright...Meanwhile 170 police and various L.E.O.'s armed with pistols, LONG GUNS and BODY ARMOUR vs. one small short woman with no gun and no training made them all look like cowards. She still gets threatened for talking to the media. Those officers continue to tell proven lies about their heroism on that day. She still gets threatened by those same officers for talking to the media. They say they'll have her kids taken away, have her house burned down, and her very life is in danger if she continues to talk to the press. Think about that for a moment. #Uvalde.
They should hire pyschiatrists and pyschward guards to work there even if they have a mental illness
Negative they have too much money. They will keep getting away with over charging and making and keeping addicts in the world. 😊
The dogs found 269 cell phones in one year sounds to me like you need to take a close look at your staff
Yup. They're smuggling them in personally or not searching the mail/visitors properly.
Yes, use those dogs to sniff personnel when they come to work...
The staff are the real criminals
@@charladavis9649literally in a prison with hundreds of MURDERERS and you say the staff are criminals for sneaking phones in? 😂😂
Right! So obviously the guards do it for $.. how do the inmates pay them? Don’t think the guards are interested in little Debbie’s or coffee
I love these prison shows. They help me remember a very important lesson; let it go. You don't need to prove a GD thing, just let it go.
Well put, just let it go, don't need to prove a GD thing, I really like that, very good advice.
Now go back to sleep
I volunteered in prisons for nearly 20 years. These supermax prisons do not make the public safer. With no programs and no human interaction these inmates literally go insane and there. Most inmates eventually get out of prison. People don't realize this that very few people die in prison. I would rather have inmates that have gone to prisons that are run like a small city where they have opportunities to learn skills and take college classes and other programs so that when they do get out they are safer on the street and less likely to be repeat offenders.
This is in America.
Prisoners in Supermax prisons usually have life or very long sentences. They are a danger to staff, other prisoners, and themselves. You don't get put in a Supermax for being a model inmate. Those prisoners all committed acts of violence once they got to prison.
@@DixiePokerAceexactly. The only reason these types of prisons exist is for those who have commited so many infractions that they cant be trusted in a general population prison
@@DixiePokerAce The US only has one Supermax. What's crazy is it was create specifically because of one guy who killed guards.
Your right though, that place is for terrorist and mass murderers. Its only the worst prisoners from maximum Security prisons that end up in the Supermax.
When your all ready doing life they cant punish prisoners with more time. So solitary confinement is the only was to deter prisoners from murders guards or other prisoners.
I think its ridiculous that ppl actually care about the wellbeing of someone who wouldn't think twice about causing them harm. These ppl are vicious animals.
Maximum Security isn't the same as a Supermax. There's only one supermax.
Prisoners arn't just put in solitary for no reason. They did something to get put there as punishment.
Prisons in the US are BIG business.
How is that?
@@jonloftness5210the prison industrial complex. Look it up. It’s way deeper than you may think. Police and prison guard unions, super PACs. It’s a national institution to keep people locked up and make money off the every aspect.
@@jonloftness5210they are driven solely by profit and not making society better.
Prisons are private businesses. taxpayer's pay for them.
@jonloftness5210
I'm sure he has some elaborate theory.
In reality, it cost taxpayers lot$ to house inmates
It's like living your whole life in a dirty gas station men's room.
2 phones and a charger is CRAZY
Up there. Bro loves it in the showers with the Bros. 😂
Drug dogs are amazing, esp the ones who can phones. That's phenomenal
Yall forgot ADX Florence in Colorado
It's where they have elchapo,I'm sure he's doing some hard time
The world's toughest prison also holds Big merchandise Flonery but not for long got that pardon yeah baby go home to yo family your son is playing your part Makin that bread for the family get out and live it up!!!!!
11:06
"...a special type of wire, with razor sharp edges"
So... razor wire?
Ah yes, the razor wire seems to be made of razor wire😭
We had that Razerband wire in Vietnam it would hook in to who ever got tangled in it cutting u up
concertina wire
They forgot to put lotsa sharks in the sea around Alcatraz😂
I've heard their is sharks occasionally in that water. I never googled it to see if it was a legit claim
But... sharks are gone kinda bonkers right now and showing up in all kinds of Water that they traditionally dont reside in. 🤷🏼♂️ this is maybe due to over fishing, destruction of their habitat, global warming, pollution... who knows?...
but its probably our fault.
@@chilIychilI Sharks are in the SF bay area, but attacks are practically unheard of. They even have swimming competitions all the time, including an Alcatraz race. The stories about sharks, currents, and freezing waters making it impossible to swim from Alcatraz to Angel Island or other mainland is clearly propaganda from the FBI not wanting to admit it was likely those 3 prisoners escaped and lived. That said, it's still a challenging swim at night, even with a raft, but sharks are likely the slightest thing to worry about.
@@StrangeHappening-iu4fu i swam to the island and back a few times never been bitten before but ive seen sharks out there currents ok unless your a shit swimmer then again if you are you prob wont be swimming about out there dont know about how cold in winter time tho
The security at the prison is so great that they have a cell phone problem. It goes without saying who brings them in.
Yup!!!
No prisoner would try to clamber through Razor Wire, not a lot of weight is required to press it down, so they would throw a blanket over the Wire and put their weight on it, pressing the Wire down in order to move across it.
These people don't know about the detention room in my high school. That place was IMPOSSIBLE to get out of.
Was it pink?? A kid who would know says our small town RURAL High School had a pink 'Time Out' room years ago.I've asked several folks but they aren't the type who would know.
It WAS pink and each kid on detention had to sit there with a PINK helium balloon tied to his wrist. IT WAS HORRIBLE!!! Every fifteen seconds, a voice on the loudspeaker would whisper, "Have a good day." Three of the most vicious kids in our school DIED THERE.@@donnienicholson6062
@@donnienicholson6062I'm from a small town and ours wasn't pink
Prisons always have a possible means of escape. It could be from help from a guard, a helicopter, sneaking out the front door in disguise, taking hostages, hiding inside a vehicle/trash truck, etc. The only exception in places that allow no visitors, no outside rec, and 24/7 surveillance on each prisoner at every moment, such as Colorado Super Max or Guantanamo Bay., but those rare types are the only outliers.
In 83 as a young man I got out of a Dublin prison one Christmas Day. I hid in a wood yard and they searched all day, that night I got over the wall broke both heels when I landed. Was caught 3 days later but. It was worth it.
Or a diversion.
Lies again? Ticket Master USD SGD
what?@@NazriB
i have also made some vanishing powder that's very strong when its dark
Being a prisoner must be horrible. But being a guard is a maggot sandwich too.
What 😂
That "special" screw that you can't buy a tool for is called a "Temper resistant Torx" and it's available at Harbor Freight. It really grids my gears when people flat out lie like that, make it seem like it's some sort of proprietary technology to make themselves look good.
Absolutely nothing special.Its common knowledge
I've got a 20 pc set of bits I bought for one I needed.Cheap and well made.
I never looked at the Tower of London in history and detail, until this video.
Thanks for sharing.
I am a direct descendant of St. Nicholas Ridley who spent a few years there with Latimer before they were both burned at the stake about 1553.
As hard and resistant the concrete is, it cannot stand up to seawater which will eventually corrupt the cell.
salt water will mess it up over time but it will take a good while before it gets weak but it will after a good few years tho
That’s what he said too
They wouldn’t like it! I can’t imagine anything worse than being incarcerated
The real truth is that when a nation needs that kind of facilities so much, there is a underlying real problem and not the problem of escaping.
There may be some underlying problems. One of those might be that there are always people who will blame their actions on anything and anyone but their own idiotic stupidity. The idiotic stupidity that put them there in the first place.
Yes. Liberals are the underlying problem
Well, the US is the 3rd most populous country, with around 340 million people. So with a population that big, a good portion of the population is going to be in prison, that’s just how it is.
@@FxreverNxthing Thanks for the Lesson. So You think that I'm not smart enough to think in incarcenation rates?
Tells all about you.
@@planck39 Did I say that? No, I have no reason to insult you. I was just stating something that, people who advocate for less full prisons, and more criminals on the streets, seem to forget. But yeah sure, go ahead and insult me for no reason. Tells all about you.
18:41 if there are 300 prisons around the world with the exact same design are they also closed? Is there going to be a documentary on the one that lasts the longest?
I just found this channel and I’m really liking it
Haha I wonder how many of those 'cell block builders' were hardened prisoners once themselves?
Love your amazing graphics! The narration is top notch as well…subscribing now! 😊
What are the worst to maximum security prisons has to be H unit at the Oklahoma State penitentiary it is built underground it also houses the death row unit
Not all prisoners are human. Some are monsters in human for.
Form not for/typigraphacal error?
That just means all humans are capable of becoming monsters.
@@seanberthiaume6909 Typographical not typigraphacal
The inmates had hot showers so they wouldn’t acclimate to easily to the cold bay water.
This is so well done, very interesting to see how prisons evolve!
The old Alcatraz prisoners seem quaint.
This is a tough joint. Stays on lockdown.
In regards to the three that escaped Alcatraz, theres evidence that they all survived and lived to old age and had a normal life. So yes, there were 3 successful escapes from a place claiming its inescapable.
Yes your right they definitely escaped. I watched that documentary where there family shown the us Marshall all the evidence. I was really glad for them to be honest.
where is the evidence?
@@DocLocAndTheSwangers do your research and you'll find it. Just like I did.
@@DocLocAndTheSwangers Here let me give you all said evidence in a youtube comment. I don't understand what people think sometimes. smh
Reports never made public back then show a 100' extension cord was missing,a boat was stopped in the harbor and seen by a State trooper....they speculate they paddled around the island,tied themselves to the Prison Launch taking the day workers home and dropped off near the boat.Not only possible but quite easy with a little luck.
This is where the boards of big pharma are going to live someday.
😂 but why....
Never happen they got us fighting each other not them
#f@ckbigpharma
@@charlesgithiri0017really? I don't know if you're joking or not lol like if you're really innocently asking..are you? Lol 😶
Along with most of the alphabet groups too. Hopefully
One can only wish!
How do prisoners charge their smuggled phones and also why aren't cellphone jammers fitted inside each wing?
Jamming is illegal
@@JonByron Illegal for private individuals due to the fact that you may block people trying to get in touch with emergency services but not for certain government agencies.
I know for a fact that if you fly say a drone over certain buildings/areas then your drone will just fall out of the sky.
Chargers are in prisons as well. Jammers are illegal, plus the screws use their own phones while at the desk. There's always a way to get things into prisons.
Four batteries and basic wire than connected to the charger cable of choice .I did some time in UK they had a phone receiver that was accurate to six meters so they could close a phone to four cells because I was popular I was always getting my cell searched for a mobile but it was the quiet inmate across from me eventually and I mean after three months and about ten searches they searched and found his phone
Tv and radios power outlets
I'm surprised they haven't built a super prison underground like from the movie Fortress.
Or a 1944 German shower stall……time to stop coddling criminals……..
Or on a large ship,that was from a movie as well.
@@duaneross9271 Are you thinking of Titanic ?
I was pretty shocked to find the existence of mega churches. That is insane. But, yeah, I'm surprised mega prisons don't exist over there too.
Katingal
I watched someone climb through two fences topped with razor wire , they caught him and the floors they dragged him over were covered with blood.
They should refurbish Alcatraz with all the modern technology of today's Prisons. They should house the worst of the worst inmates here.
Close down san quintan & sell the land to pay for it.
In the usa they have the death row
EPA won’t allow it unless you hook plumbing to SF sanitary district. Alcatraz was shut down due to operating costs, not humanitarian reasons
It would cost thousands a week just to ship supply there. It's way to costly
@@mr.hansholmes2367SQ is a state facility, Alcatraz was fed. ADX Florence is even more secure than Alcatraz was
How about those loose cables for the tv? Possibly hang oneself?
Couldn't help but smiling in the grimmest moments of the video 😈
Saw a movie in which vicious criminals weren't incarcerated for years, but rather were instantly aged to old people and then released, having lost decades of their lives.
I could dig that! I'd have 'em run it backwards and take me back to my teens.
@@schizy Sorry, only runs forward😥
Altered Carbon had a similar concept, although they were put in a comatose state for their sentence, rather than it happening instantly. Neat idea to think about, but in practice it would provide zero rehabilitation and lead to incredibly high recidivism rates
The film Paradise?
@@mathsiecat not sure, that may have been one of them on this theme.
But the cell phones don't get there by the prisioners they get there by the guards hello 😅😊
KID REFUSES PAROLE OFFICER! POLICE retrieve kid and parents must come to school again
31:08 31:20
How did 200 plus cell phones get in? Ask the guards themselves.
Okay. How did the man get out of the barbed wire?
269 cell phones in one year?
Prison guards must make a LOT of money.
As a Mechanical Engineer specializing in building mechanical systems...I was hired a few years ago to design plumbing for an expansion to a Federal Maximum Security Prison in my Canadian Province...it took a couple week's of extra work, to adapt to Federal Prison requirements...oh well, I can now list it as an area that I have experience in...a detail the Fed's consider when hiring for future construction/renovation projects - it's not a common 'area of expertise'. It's secured a few new contracts - so it's something that I've never regretted - that extra work I dealt with...
That's awesome! Great design 🎉
You can buy the safety bolt head Allen wrenches at any auto parts store.
These barbed wires remind me of France I got stuck in the barbed wire a long time ago in Sangat, I tried to catch the train but I couldn't because it was moving so fast and the guards noticed me, I lost the exit hole. lucky to escape the barbed wire with little damage to the arms and legs😫
Prison napalm is more dangerous than a phone or drugs...
Sugar and water heated to boiling.
It becomes sticky and is so hot, it causes the akin to become so soft, it comes off with it
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GOOD, I like this place for the the monsters we call criminals. If they run out of space there they should build DOWN into the earth.
I like those in the Nordic Countries and Switzerland... Tennis courts, nice parks, ping pong, media rooms, beautifully crafted, posh private suite rooms. Like a good 4-Star hotel... maybe even a little better.
But prison is meant to be about PUNISHMENT!
@@jackesioto lost freedom, in countries in which FREEDOM is TRUE, not just a saying, is scary enough and loss enough in Nordic countries and Switzerland.
Well they don’t have diversity. They don’t deal with western government violent crime stats.
@@jackesioto Rehabilitation is a much more constructive objective.
Prisoners in the Nordics have lost their freedom. Accommodation is of an acceptable standard to Norwegians, hardly “posh”. In a hotel, guests may come and go as they please, not so in prison. Unlike in the US, Norwegian prisons are effective.
Just watched a documentary on the escape and they have proved that the two brothers actually survived the escape and successfully made it out and free!
so what?
They ended up on a ranch in Brazil.
Thanks,
What great design for late 1800’s -----
So the concrete was ultimately to blame for the closing of Alcatraz....great fact!
A guy that was in a federal usp (prison) said that the bars in that prison allegedly have smaller solid loose fitting bars (or solid pipes/coduits) inside the outer hollow bar. So if u do manage to cut threw the outter bar with a saw blade, once the saw blade teeth bite into the inner bar, it will just spin back and forth with the blade and it cant be cut unless u somehow u stop it from moving.
I'd use a shim
Once you cut the outer bar can't you just hold the inside bar while cutting it? I'm not sure if I got what you were saying but from what I thought you said if correct, couldn't you do that?
@@BriannaLKay u got it, thats kinda the point & design. Their is no way to stop it from moving with just one saw blade hole. I'm sure it can be defeated somehow. But it's an added layer of "pain in the ass" if u only have one cutting tool.
I know guys can sometimes defeat the the tamper resistant tourqe screws, by melting a toothpaste cap, pushing it in the screws head and letting it cool. It evidently will take the correct shape and can be strong enough to then remove some screws when it's done correctly.
When u got thousands of men & women, with 24 hours a day and multi year scentences just trying random stuff, sooner or later, something will work. It's kinda like having the biggest & cheapest Research & Development team in the entire world. 🤣
Same shit in west. Co. Jail Valhalla NY. Old side
Called "roller" bars
However bad your day is going... just he happy to know that you didn't grow up to be a correctional officer. Lmao... obviously wasn't a written test involved for those featured in this video.
There should never be a prisoner that feels safe while he or she is in prison. Never!!
Exactly. If we keep them in fear we can ensure they'll come back. The moment you show prisoners any humanity, or give them skills to be productive members of society, they'll leave the prison and never come back. Keep them in fear; keep our private prisons profitable
The US didn't get the largest prison population in the world by chance. We worked hard to create a system that funnels as many people into a cycle of incarceration
I remember all these cos
@2:32 The daily deadly cat 😺 and mouse 🐭 game.
The war on drugs as a big joke.
Big AL Capone could've escaped that prison....
being able to escape from a prison is no hallmark of insecurity.
AMERICA IS ONE SICK PUPPY. HER THREE BIGGEST BUSINESSES ARE WAR, CRIME, AND DRUGS. SO THIS SHOULD TELL YOU WHERE WE ARE HEADING. JUST THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE IMMIGRATION DUMPING GROUND BEING SET UP FOR THE SLAUGHTER AND FAR TOO DUMB TO KNOW IT. THESE FOOLS HAVE NO CLUE WHO IS PLAYING THEM OR REALLY CALLING THE SHOTS. THESE MINDLESS SHEEP ONLY KNOW HOW TO TAKE ORDERS AND KISS ASS.
Those prisons are so cool 😎 I'm robbing a bank 🏦 to get thrown in one. 😶
Fiiiiahh docoo, well deserved for way more followers..you definitely will someday sometime, but you will! 🥰
Is there anyone else here who has been to Alcatraz?
Yes, amazing place,the cells are dark damp little boxes. The views are fabulous. To stay there it’s a foggy,damp and cold place to be. The inmates used to get hot showers,to discourage, escaping by swimming, because the cold would even be more of a shock to them.
BUT! they can't keep drugs out of it!
they dont need to anymore
The federal prison system has been privatized and is now a profit motive corporation with the introduction of mandatory sentences. I heard that housing these criminals is costing the federal government some 300 billion dollars per year which is more expensive than the Iraq war at 130 billion. So, 300 billion is nearly a billion dollars a day. We can't afford to continually provide free room and board and showers and 3 meals a day plus weight training to repeat offenders of serious crimes. I do not know what these counties and states pay but I'm a sure it is some 30,000 per year per inmate. So, we are paying 30,000 per year to feed and house criminals compared to social security payments which are 12,000 for the retired and disabled.
So, these prison corporations are making huge profits at 30,000 per prisoner. We cannot afford 1.5 trillion dollars every 5 years or 3 trillion dollars per decade, all tax based just to keep dangerous repeat anti social law breakers off the street. So, we are going to have to examine this criminal justice system very closely and make hard decisions as a fiscally responsible state with much more forceful means and new laws and dispose of these multiple appeal processes. Prisons which are extra heavy facilities with reinforced doors and guard payrolls and prisoner expenses are extremely expensive compared to good standardized public housing. Good public housing is far far less expensive than prisons and would serve a much greater need. Good public housing is far less expensive. This prison system is far too expensive. LLXIIX77
prison would kill me with in a month i can not stand long term confinement
Henry Laurent the father of John Laurent, of the Hamilton musical was the only American imprisoned in the Tower
It's funny how they left out the part about how the officer's bring in the contraband.
It's pretty obvious. Who else would? Santa clause. Yall can't be this dumb
Many female guards engage in sexual shenanigans with the inmates too.
Nice! Build 2 or 3 more in America. People are getting worse by the year!
America has the most prisoners in the world, and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world. You're telling me it's getting even worse? Sounds like a terrifying country to live in. I don't know how you do it
@mikea5745 Keep your thoughts on the law abiding citizens that work hard and raise their children in hopes of better days! The good people need a safe country. Those who can't play by the rules need to go!
@@chuckieb3798 That sounds horrible, I'm sorry to hear it. Really glad I don't live in the US if it's as bad as you say
@@chuckieb3798 What do you think is wrong with America that so many Americans turn into criminals?
Is it the education system? Politics? Religion? The politics seems pretty crazy, and I've heard the education system is really underfunded there. But I also know something like 90% of the criminals in prison are Christians, so that seems a strong factor
Artificial intelligence and robotics (no humans) will manage the prisons.
Thank you for taking the time
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What if someone has a mental implant like a metal rod or something like that???
It's indeed a struggle being behind those bars.. But at least they don't have to deal with an unopened pistachio
I believe the problem is that investor's know big bucks in pharmacy. So they invest they shouldn't let people invest in pharmacy. Greed is not good.
They really took every jail known for being hard or impossible to escape and Said ok throw it all together. Very interesting watch !
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How about home for the majority of our, US gov’t representatives; from the bottom right up to the very top!!!
melt the end of ypur tooth brush while its soft press it on to the special screws wait 30 seconds and you have a perfect screwdriver for removing them😂
Eh I prefer freedom so things like this are useless to me.
Thats it haha
@heywoodjablowme8120 yeah me too, but knowledge is power that wee trick could save your life one day, ps stay out if prison you'd be paying rent on your allocated cell ☮️
Imagine concealing your cellphone too deeply on accident, and being an influencer whose phone is on vibrate.
I don't have a lot or a lot going on at the moment , BUT, how many human beings behind the wall you think would trade places with me in a blink or a heartbeat ?
0.55 The tower of London was not designed as a prison.
Nothing is impenetrable
You're right it only takes 2 things time and pressure..😮
That's correct. Warden Shearin.
Disorderlili cleared to proceed on 100 000
Money is what’s going on ! Rehabilitation joke slavery yes
If I was a criminal in America I know who I would be coming after😂
The toughest maximum-security prison is h unit at Oklahoma State penitentiary
OooOoo why why?? 😮😊
I don't think anything is tougher than Colorado SuperMax.
@@StrangeHappening-iu4fu there's a video on here about Oklahoma State penitentiary they also have a supermax it's called h unit it also houses death row and it is underground
I have no doubt it's tough but have you seen what Madagascar prisons look like? Or are you only talking about the U.S.?
ADX Florence, most secure prison in the world.
I’m colour blind but are the hands on the wall Brown 😳
Where there is a will theres a way no matter how secure the prison is
9:57 they have computer 🖥 in cells
That's really funny when the man said that's where the board of big farm is going to end up I hope so
The best way ✌️
the way this mf is praising and admiring and calling these absolute animalistic inhumane prisons masterpieces don’t sit right with me
Two cell phones and a charger up a bum. Omgoodness
Where is ADX Florence though...