Why Was This Prisoner Kept Locked Away In Permanent TOTAL Isolation

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  • čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
  • Being isolated and completely alone even for a few days can eat away at a person, but what about being isolated for decades. In today's video we look at the isolated life of Tommy Silverstein, a dangerous prisoner who lived his life in total solitary confinement.
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    who actually spent most time in solitary confinement 00:00
    in prison since 1977 0:35
    america's most dangerous prisoner 0:55
    specially designed solitary cell 1:15
    how Thomas Silverstein got raised 2:15
    Silverstein, his father and his uncle get arrested 3:01
    the prison guards let it happen 4:50
    He got transferred to a different prison where he committed more crimes 6:15
    no human contact for Tommy 6:40
    Silverstein writes a blog 8:05
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Komentáře • 3,3K

  • @TheInfographicsShow
    @TheInfographicsShow  Před 4 lety +4696

    Should he have been given an option to take the death penalty?

    • @debbiehf05
      @debbiehf05 Před 4 lety +450

      No because that is the easy way out. He did a bad deed, so it would be more of a punishment to stay locked up. And he definitely deserves the worst punishments.

    • @RelaxwithSeizure
      @RelaxwithSeizure Před 4 lety +228

      He's already dead, do some research. Died almost two months ago.

    • @donjangabriel736
      @donjangabriel736 Před 4 lety +39

      Yes

    • @Mydogismarley
      @Mydogismarley Před 4 lety +63

      Relax with Seizure they mean before he died

    • @kauan5684
      @kauan5684 Před 4 lety +11

      Relax with Seizure yeah a simple google search would of shown he died may 11th

  • @williamvii7378
    @williamvii7378 Před 4 lety +9720

    He's already dead he died on May 11, 2019. He was 67 years old when he died.

    • @Anastasia-eu5mj
      @Anastasia-eu5mj Před 4 lety +434

      Well oof he died on my dads birthday o-o

    • @lakera6860
      @lakera6860 Před 4 lety +206

      @@Anastasia-eu5mj that's my mom's birthday too and a day before mine

    • @Anastasia-eu5mj
      @Anastasia-eu5mj Před 4 lety +188

      @LaKera
      Like, you’re celebrating and this dude is dying and u don’t even know -0-

    • @Deadbass_
      @Deadbass_ Před 4 lety +96

      @Nadeem Mostafa google

    • @doyouseeafloatingsandwich4301
      @doyouseeafloatingsandwich4301 Před 4 lety +152

      @@Anastasia-eu5mj but can we talk about your username? 🤔

  • @whatsdrugs
    @whatsdrugs Před 4 lety +3364

    "His biological father and also his uncle" sounded really bad until I looked back at the screen and realized it was two separate people 🤣.

  • @doodlium2093
    @doodlium2093 Před 4 lety +3061

    Man: starts eating brains
    His mom: It's cuz of that fricking Phone

  • @maeglo4007
    @maeglo4007 Před 4 lety +2173

    Dam 2 life sentences double life less gooo

    • @kittenmimi5326
      @kittenmimi5326 Před 4 lety +17

      Why are you confused lol

    • @dakotadirig7562
      @dakotadirig7562 Před 4 lety +86

      @@kittenmimi5326 because, adding one life sentence on top of another one is useless, as he will never live to see the 2nd life sentence, hence the name "life sentence"

    • @kittenmimi5326
      @kittenmimi5326 Před 4 lety +112

      @@dakotadirig7562 coz with 1 life sentence after some years the prisoner could be eligible for parole so they get released early, but with 2 or more maybe it takes much longer for them to be eligible for parole or they might not be able to get a chance at all. But this person probably should never get one anyway.

    • @dakotadirig7562
      @dakotadirig7562 Před 4 lety +13

      @@kittenmimi5326 aw, thanks

    • @kennethwells3536
      @kennethwells3536 Před 4 lety +5

      He should have been given the death sentences by then.

  • @bazookacantgame
    @bazookacantgame Před 4 lety +3746

    Don't know about you all but I'd much rather be executed then spend 40-50 it years rotting away in a prison cell

    • @deadpicklechinahboi4777
      @deadpicklechinahboi4777 Před 4 lety +158

      Same, that really messes with you

    • @Xlr8t
      @Xlr8t Před 4 lety +127

      Remember they are trying to punish him! So they would do something messed up obviously

    • @avkn.flames7346
      @avkn.flames7346 Před 4 lety +6

      Me too.

    • @balazss7178
      @balazss7178 Před 4 lety +45

      Tortureing was the idea the whole time

    • @Rob-uc8zr
      @Rob-uc8zr Před 4 lety +69

      easy to say until you're actually facing death

  • @zuko1569
    @zuko1569 Před 4 lety +2229

    1:03 Death -Note- Wall. He's dangerous
    He should play Minecraft single player mode. Mining alone is true isolation.

  • @lilraybakes5539
    @lilraybakes5539 Před 4 lety +34

    Prison guards should have body cams like police. They absolutely need to be held accountable. At the same time it helps their innocence if they aren't in the wrong.

  • @teclishighelf5787
    @teclishighelf5787 Před 4 lety +179

    In an article he wrote a few years ago, Silverstein called solitary confinement "a slow constant peeling of the skin, stripping of the flesh, the nerve-wracking sound of water dripping from a leaky faucet in the still of the night while you're trying to sleep. Drip, drip, drip, the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, constantly drip away with no end or relief in sight."
    This is what life in Canada is like.

  • @acnoah410
    @acnoah410 Před 4 lety +5468

    It all started with the bullying....

    • @ludmilasierra2508
      @ludmilasierra2508 Před 4 lety +98

      Yup

    • @kentoooooooooooooooooooooooooo
      @kentoooooooooooooooooooooooooo Před 4 lety +88

      AGREED

    • @Anthony-nb1xw
      @Anthony-nb1xw Před 4 lety +195

      Just Noah no it all starts with people victimizing killers. It is easy to be a killer when society says it isn’t your fault.

    • @gorillaguerillaDK
      @gorillaguerillaDK Před 4 lety +226

      lil T
      No one says it wasn't his fault he killed people - we're talking about the conditions that help create the kind of person who do these things!
      And yes, bullying is part of it!
      That doesn't mean he's innocent of the crimes he did......

    • @justacommonegg3714
      @justacommonegg3714 Před 4 lety +43

      @@gorillaguerillaDK He literally killed 3 prisioners and who knows many guards, I dont think bullying was the main reason to commit those type of things.

  • @hubbabubba1275
    @hubbabubba1275 Před 4 lety +5147

    Bro imagine being that guy but was wrongly accused

  • @st6084
    @st6084 Před 3 lety +85

    When you listen you can hear the "narrator" talking about horrible things then you just hear the cheerful music playing in the background

  • @JoocyPump
    @JoocyPump Před 4 lety +353

    "dude, you can't just leave me completely isolated from other people, it's barbaric!"
    - dude who violently stabs people whenever he gets the chance

    • @maknyc1539
      @maknyc1539 Před 4 lety +13

      he probably only killed people because he went insane in prison for so long

    • @MyRegardsToTheDodo
      @MyRegardsToTheDodo Před 3 lety +29

      @@maknyc1539 Uhm, not really. He went to prison for armed robbery, then started killing people, then was isolated.

    • @darkfox7952
      @darkfox7952 Před 3 lety +7

      The only reason he killed those people was because he was terribly abused by his father and the people he killed were predators and child albusers

    • @satoril928
      @satoril928 Před 3 lety +11

      @@darkfox7952 you obviously didn't watch the video

    • @CaptMorpheusZ
      @CaptMorpheusZ Před 3 lety +11

      @@satoril928 He never killed anyone untill he got into prison.
      Can't really say prison is the best for mental health.

  • @kitakizeinko8780
    @kitakizeinko8780 Před 4 lety +1633

    I was about to say the system was biased towards him, but then I saw how he killed and stabbed ppl repeatedly without remorse, it's now clear why he was never released

    • @thecarwithinternetaccess7952
      @thecarwithinternetaccess7952 Před 4 lety +15

      I’m so proud that you guys are anime. Respect.

    • @erikburzinski8248
      @erikburzinski8248 Před 4 lety +58

      Yes he should not be released as he is a danger to the prison and to the public.
      however they should give him a computer and a VR head set along with internet that why he chould socializ with people in vr maybe stopping him from going more insane
      this whould also stop his isulation from being absolute and whould in my opinion stop it from being a crime against humanity.

    • @JohnSmith-qz6rd
      @JohnSmith-qz6rd Před 4 lety +5

      Automatically assuming the system is bias? Sounds reasonable....

    • @JohnSmith-qz6rd
      @JohnSmith-qz6rd Před 4 lety +41

      @@erikburzinski8248 why do you care? He deserves it

    • @erikburzinski8248
      @erikburzinski8248 Před 4 lety +33

      @@JohnSmith-qz6rd NO ONE DESERVES TO BE TORTURED FOR LIFE NO MATTER WHAT THEY DID

  • @Donnyf3841
    @Donnyf3841 Před 4 lety +1903

    The media is “prone to exaggeration at times”
    I’m sorry...AT TIMES??!!

    • @arttukettunen5757
      @arttukettunen5757 Před 4 lety +81

      Social media is almost more trustworthy than the press at this point

    • @niles1492
      @niles1492 Před 4 lety +5

      Are they really exaggerating him..... he's killed guards and inmates...

    • @aprofessionalgamer5355
      @aprofessionalgamer5355 Před 4 lety +20

      Yeah dude, we are all dead in 12 years! CNN told me that, so it must be true!

    • @zeejustin6
      @zeejustin6 Před 4 lety +1

      when did cnn say this?

    • @neilsiebenthal8696
      @neilsiebenthal8696 Před 4 lety +8

      @@niles1492 he killed guards that where especially awful to him. Take a moment and think what they probably did to him. Then think if you would willingly keep letting it happen.

  • @eterah
    @eterah Před 4 lety +243

    He died in May of 2019 just to let you all know so you don’t have to search it up

    • @unicornsparkleswirl7564
      @unicornsparkleswirl7564 Před 4 lety +7

      He died when he was 67,he stabbed an inmate 67 times

    • @mandero6682
      @mandero6682 Před 4 lety

      friendly neighborhood pyro maniac. The hatred and rage the man held

  • @Yourlocalintern
    @Yourlocalintern Před 4 lety +281

    Silverstein: I am the most isolated prisoner
    Yoshie: Hold my miso soup.

    • @currysues
      @currysues Před 4 lety +10

      Yoshie Shiratori?

    • @Nacho-pw1qx
      @Nacho-pw1qx Před 4 lety +5

      @@currysues look him up, dude escaped 4 prisons

    • @vKillingMoon3124
      @vKillingMoon3124 Před 4 lety +2

      Nacho that’s true he escaped prison and his last escape was underground LoL

    • @thejaydenandwilliamshow7769
      @thejaydenandwilliamshow7769 Před 4 lety +2

      scurry_away he’s a dude who escaped prison 4 times
      Yes, you heard that right
      *4* times

    • @smazelsp6423
      @smazelsp6423 Před 4 lety

      Yoshie: 味噌汁を握る

  • @michealarchangel637
    @michealarchangel637 Před 4 lety +530

    If he has a life sentence then prison is no longer their to rehabilitate him, its their to keep him away from society.

    • @williamharrison787
      @williamharrison787 Před 4 lety +12

      Exactly

    • @peterb8904
      @peterb8904 Před 4 lety +36

      You assume US prisons wants them to be rehabilitated they want them to come back so they can get more money

    • @zoeystewart2310
      @zoeystewart2310 Před 4 lety +38

      @@peterb8904 Even if so, he murdered three people. There's no reason he should have gotten out if he was still alive.

    • @mondaysinsanity8193
      @mondaysinsanity8193 Před 4 lety +27

      If you aren't gonna rehabilitate them death sentence otherwise it's just torture and making them worse and worse with ths added risk an already violent person tortured for decades escapes

    • @dexieleighyan2625
      @dexieleighyan2625 Před 4 lety +10

      @@mondaysinsanity8193 true... violent and aggressive people paired with insanity are scary.

  • @Jrez
    @Jrez Před 4 lety +898

    He's totally right, the US prison system is not in any sense meant for rehabilitation, but for pure retribution and profit.

    • @handcraftedd4780
      @handcraftedd4780 Před 4 lety +103

      Jrezky well when you fail to rehabilitate the first time (when he served 4 years) then commits 3 more robberies, then stabs 3 guards and some prisoners over 20 times there’s a high chance you’re not getting rehabilitated

    • @nicholashodges201
      @nicholashodges201 Před 4 lety +70

      @@handcraftedd4780 in order for one to fail at rehabilitation, there needs to be an attempt to rehabilitate the individual first. Our system is not built to do that, and the visible shows at such are just that, shows.
      For example the prisoner education programs which focused on educational tracks that a felon would Never be able to use outside of prison (such as CPA, teaching & other 4yr programs), instead of blue collar technical schooling that are guaranteed paths to employment regardless of criminal history.

    • @oakstrong1
      @oakstrong1 Před 4 lety +29

      @@handcraftedd4780 Prisons are NOT REHABILITATION CENTRES, they are purely punitive in nature.
      A middle aged guy with a history much like this guy in the video, ( troubled childhood, armed robbery but nobody got hurt) was given bail and the probation office paid him to attend math, English and study skills classes, to get grades that would allow him further study. He was a likeable guy and we shared a table with him at lunch. Only one or two people knew he was wearing a tracker hidden by his trousers. But even though he was enthusiastic about learning, he struggled with the study and the pressure was mounting until it became too much: he ended up drinking one night and had a fight with the nightclub owner, threatened him with a knife. That's the version I got from a newspaper, he claims he felt threatened and was defending himself. Naturally, with his background he got the blame (whatever the truth is). If only he had the right support he might have pulled tbrough. I had a funny feeling I should have called to reassure him about study and help him not to drink, but his wife / girlfriend wasn't very receptive for him to have female friends, so I decided to wait for the following week when I would see him in the class. He never came and now he will start serving a 12 year sentence.
      The guy in video surely had mental health issues from the bullying and string of fathers, maybe lack of motherly love, but with therapy and supportive / positive environment he might have been able to turn his life around. Instead, what happened to him in prison was just a continuation of his childhood bullying to which he reacted the o my way he knew how; the way his mother had taught: an eye for an eye... Whatever this guy did, it was the society that failed him and for that he didn't deserve torture: long term isolation, deprivation of stimulus and lights on 24/7. And other forms of torture he indicated.

    • @ZenuxProduction
      @ZenuxProduction Před 4 lety

      Claptrap Claptrap Actually those are prison rules

    • @oakstrong1
      @oakstrong1 Před 4 lety +7

      @@ZenuxProduction Yes, but that doesn't make them right, and too often the rules are broken or the rules of conduct are not followed. For example, bullying is not sanctioned in any institutions rules, buy it happens in all because of lack of monitoring and because institutions attract bullies. Plus all normal people are hard wired to behave like in the Stanford prison guard experiment. (There are other experiments to show the same behaviour of conformity in more gentle situations, like the surgery waiting room one)

  • @thetropicaldream5933
    @thetropicaldream5933 Před 4 lety +232

    Not as isolated as Wilson... Wilson lost his friend at sea after falling of his raft while his friend was eventually found... unfortunately Wilson hasn't been seen since then.. still presumed to be alive.

  • @Noctifern
    @Noctifern Před 4 lety +35

    Imagine all of the sudden getting released after decades, it would seem like the world is futuristic, crazy

  • @pugmygudboi
    @pugmygudboi Před 4 lety +391

    Silverstein has been dead for a month... google says... says he died on may 11
    Edit: wiki says that Colorado prisons told them he died of heart failure

  • @matthewmckever2312
    @matthewmckever2312 Před rokem +13

    When I was 16 I did two and a half years. While there I did something called a good order and discipline which is 3 months isolation sleeping on a cardboard mattress on the floor waling up with mice, roaches and worse of all ants, I have a phobia of ants till this day.
    When I got out it took a week till I could speak properly. Isolation is inhumane I became a borderline sociopath. It's a miracle that I never went back.

    • @essennagerry
      @essennagerry Před 7 měsíci +1

      I wish you all the best and I hope that you truly have full and complete healing for everything you need it for! ❤ May God bless you. He healed me from all of my wrongdoings and all that was done wrongly to me.

  • @larsonb33
    @larsonb33 Před 4 lety +12

    man i spent a week in solitary for a probation violation on a dui and i will tell you, i was hallucinating by the end. that type of punishment is in humain

  • @cleverlesstv7724
    @cleverlesstv7724 Před 4 lety +693

    In conclusion, a nice prison guard is a safe prison guard, even from the most violent prisoner

    • @nwykoff
      @nwykoff Před 4 lety +36

      in conclusion, you know nothing about real prison

    • @a2pabmb2
      @a2pabmb2 Před 4 lety +86

      In conclusion, @@nwykoff touches little boys and will soon learn ALL about real prison.

    • @chazozochan6966
      @chazozochan6966 Před 4 lety +1

      @@a2pabmb2 not nice :(

    • @ryanelkadi3196
      @ryanelkadi3196 Před 4 lety +4

      a2pabmb2 how will he learn about real prison when he gets beaten up to death on his first day

    • @chazozochan6966
      @chazozochan6966 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ryanelkadi3196 I would hug him

  • @ineednothin6373
    @ineednothin6373 Před 4 lety +1074

    He was cruel. But if you see it in another light he killed people who threatened his life or were mean to him. He in a way was protecting himself.

    • @bz.27k15
      @bz.27k15 Před 4 lety +44

      i need nothin he killed prison guards

    • @bluupython5216
      @bluupython5216 Před 4 lety +113

      This is the ideology of a prison system, treat the prisoner horrible or unjustly, make their life more terrible

    • @saherfarhan912
      @saherfarhan912 Před 4 lety +18

      No way there innocence and he murdered them cuz he wanted revenge

    • @michaelklockner8539
      @michaelklockner8539 Před 4 lety +111

      Treat prisoners like animals, they behave like animals. Treat prisoners like human beings and they behave like human beings.
      Ever wondered why german prisons were so chill?

    • @sandeshpatil3785
      @sandeshpatil3785 Před 4 lety +29

      @@michaelklockner8539 why a person who commited horrible crime should be treated like human being anyway?

  • @rhem
    @rhem Před 4 lety +81

    The guard that was nice to him is smart

  • @vladoslav1243
    @vladoslav1243 Před 4 lety +559

    Wait he was jewish and in gang called aryian brotherhood?

    • @hateislove3947
      @hateislove3947 Před 4 lety +94

      Nope. Did you watch the beginning. He got the nane by her mothers marriage. He ain't jewish.

    • @56Tyskie
      @56Tyskie Před 4 lety +9

      Not like it hasn't happened before in history.

    • @mytoesarecold5555
      @mytoesarecold5555 Před 4 lety +24

      B. W. - nope. 🤦🏻

    • @b.w.8104
      @b.w.8104 Před 4 lety +23

      @@mytoesarecold5555 hope you get a chance to find out.

    • @stanbeard3557
      @stanbeard3557 Před 4 lety +9

      B. W. I believe they hate each other, and ruthless towards each other lol. I highly doubt it’s one sided

  • @brentedwards8949
    @brentedwards8949 Před 4 lety +426

    Hmmmmm I don't know what I was going to do if I had so much time alone in the prison especially in confinement.... And

  • @josefherman9585
    @josefherman9585 Před 4 lety +853

    They put a Jewish raised prisoner with a guard called Klutz? Of course it ended badly!

    • @jaranis9273
      @jaranis9273 Před 4 lety +9

      Josef Herman HAHAHAHAHA

    • @rn-zu5ld
      @rn-zu5ld Před 4 lety +16

      At least it wasn't Herman gooering

    • @ronnnmmm
      @ronnnmmm Před 4 lety +8

      @siphosihle madondo germany

    • @cbookins
      @cbookins Před 4 lety +4

      @siphosihle madondo the holocaust??

    • @leahachase
      @leahachase Před 4 lety +18

      cbookins you’re not explaining it at all

  • @randomcrap7682
    @randomcrap7682 Před 4 lety +96

    He died of a heart attack on may 11th 2019

  • @Nik.No.K
    @Nik.No.K Před 4 lety +27

    I appreciate you guys looking at both sides of this. On the one hand obviously something has to be done if you’re killing guards but on the other the kind of isolation he’s being put through is just torture plain and simple. In general US prisons lean far too much in the direction of punishment as opposed to rehabilitation and the results (our recidivism rate) speak for themselves. Of course why would prisons care about rehabilitation when they’re getting paid for every prisoner they have? That’s the root of the problem.

    • @SinisterScoundrel6562
      @SinisterScoundrel6562 Před 4 měsíci

      Until there's that one man who destroys 3/4 of the United States with interconnected time bombs, and causes the casualties of a millions cuz he's too disgruntled from his prison stay.

  • @theredghostman9279
    @theredghostman9279 Před 4 lety +778

    Ironic he stabbed an officer 40 times and now has spent 40 years in isolation

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  • @mumunist2580
    @mumunist2580 Před 4 lety +183

    “Aww hello son, let’s catch up!”
    *and rob a bank together*

    • @aidynsbestyoutubemoments
      @aidynsbestyoutubemoments Před 4 lety +7

      Lol GTA logic

    • @russellbarbett997
      @russellbarbett997 Před 3 lety +1

      Some parents are the worst, and child pays the price.

    • @soniagutierrezquiroz5596
      @soniagutierrezquiroz5596 Před 3 lety

      When you ask me, the kid should've been left off the hook because he was 7 years old when he was abandoned by his biological parents and found that military man. The kid right now is in his early 20s still in prison, but he needs to get out. Its not his fault that his "Adopted Dad" brainwashed him and told him to do those things.

  • @canwetalkaboutthat6117
    @canwetalkaboutthat6117 Před 4 lety +64

    Bullying can change a person to have such hate in there hearts.

    • @TheRick517
      @TheRick517 Před 2 lety

      in THEIR hearts! Jesus Christ!

  • @chewjinghong
    @chewjinghong Před 4 lety +171

    Can you make a video about the bristling Robert “brain eater” maudsley that you mentioned in the beginning of this video?
    I’m interested to learn more about him!!

    • @rebecca8866
      @rebecca8866 Před 4 lety +3

      Same!

    • @beruffakten3407
      @beruffakten3407 Před 4 lety +1

      Me 2, i wanna eat human brain too

    • @spidervinny
      @spidervinny Před 4 lety +1

      @@beruffakten3407 oh no bristling Robert!

    • @E_Chap
      @E_Chap Před 4 lety +5

      I just looked him up. Maudsley was sent to prison for murdering a man who showed him pictures of all the children he molested. While in prison, Maudsley lured another convicted child molester into his cell and murdered him too.

  • @uqasa
    @uqasa Před 4 lety +415

    He lost his humanity. Had several chances and decided to continue the violence. I think solitary confinement is a ok but the beatings and sadistic expressions of the administrators and guards is part of the issue too. So
    he kinda got what he deserved and more.

    • @elsielf
      @elsielf Před 4 lety

      yeah, that's true.

    • @TheTrueLDS
      @TheTrueLDS Před 4 lety +62

      uqasa and where do you think he lost his humanity?
      He was a kid, ignorant and probably more idiotic than most, but he was still a kid. And what did jail do to him? Rehabilitate him to become a productive, peaceful member of society? No. It taught him that you have to fight and hurt others to get the few comforts of life.
      This was a broken kid, who wasn’t taught any better. But the system was what turned him into a vile human being.

    • @Zombehnation1001
      @Zombehnation1001 Před 4 lety +17

      Nobody chooses anything, you're conditioned by life to act how you do.

    • @j.2667
      @j.2667 Před 4 lety +7

      @@5licK5killz190 you're so mad that you liked your own reaction

    • @ragnarokofborg
      @ragnarokofborg Před 4 lety +1

      @@TheTrueLDS > This was a broken kid, who wasn’t taught any better. But the system was what turned him into a vile human being.
      I haven't watched the video yet, but I wonder if this was (one of the) bases for the SVU episode "Solitary" (2009, 11x03)?

  • @nicolasjlorenzo
    @nicolasjlorenzo Před 4 lety +60

    Well if he wouldn’t have killed all those people he wouldn’t have been in solitary confinement 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @PuppyTheTiny
      @PuppyTheTiny Před 4 lety +9

      He killed in prison but not outside
      That is questionable
      Is prison so bad that people turn mad? Maybe..

    • @leelizardwilcox6271
      @leelizardwilcox6271 Před 4 lety +3

      @@PuppyTheTiny He killed to further the REACH OF A PRISON GANG he killed to help a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION

  • @dwaynechaps5690
    @dwaynechaps5690 Před 3 lety +8

    There's no comprehending the mental torture that this guy endured. Complete isolation for 37 years... Unbelievable!

  • @2Turnt7126
    @2Turnt7126 Před 4 lety +480

    He sounds like Trevor from Grand Theft Auto 5

  • @derrekluong6423
    @derrekluong6423 Před 4 lety +73

    Could have just put him in death sentence...

    • @bobbysingh5666
      @bobbysingh5666 Před 4 lety

      Derrek Luong yea I’m confused.

    • @b1ff
      @b1ff Před 4 lety

      9:32 he couldn't be given the death penalty.

    • @delcreme
      @delcreme Před 4 lety

      they didn't want to put him in a death sentence, that would just be ending his torture. they wanted to see him suffer.

  • @damnedcarrot
    @damnedcarrot Před 3 lety +24

    The U.S.A really like to pick and choose which of their amendments are “sacred”. Cruel and unusual punishment is clearly not one of them.

  • @BenReillySpydr1962
    @BenReillySpydr1962 Před 4 lety +78

    Honestly his mom's story is perhaps the most interesting to me imo🤔

  • @mulder801
    @mulder801 Před 4 lety +31

    well, idk, but stabbing people repeatedly is a pretty severe crime too

  • @zachcrawford5
    @zachcrawford5 Před 4 lety +48

    He was really sick and they wouldn't say what is wrong or let his family visit him. That seems really suspicious. What did they really do to him in there?

    • @petarc8152
      @petarc8152 Před 4 lety +9

      Guards probably tortured him

    • @YungEx_TheBest
      @YungEx_TheBest Před 4 lety +2

      Petar C Definitely tortured him, especially up north in Illinois, it’s bad up there😕

    • @elsielf
      @elsielf Před 4 lety +1

      welp I hope the guards die fast then

    • @YungEx_TheBest
      @YungEx_TheBest Před 4 lety +5

      Bleeart if you’re asking why he deserves it, he didn’t, it’s the thought process of an eye for an eye. If not then we’ll that’s your thought process

    • @jokerthegoat8937
      @jokerthegoat8937 Před 4 lety +2

      Zach Crawford I don’t think the guards did anything to him, seems like isolation has just mentally destroyed him to the point where he is extremely unstable

  • @skatedonut952
    @skatedonut952 Před 4 lety +72

    In Michigan we can’t have “super max” on correctional facility signs because the prisoners families get offended. They forget the prisoners have victims and there is a reason they are in a super max.

    • @MechWarrior894
      @MechWarrior894 Před 4 lety +3

      Ah yes, the 'tough love' approach. Guess it's hard to imagine yourself on the other side of the bars.

    • @daerdevvyl4314
      @daerdevvyl4314 Před 4 lety +4

      MechWarrior894 Yes, it is hard to imagine being in prison for a heinous crime. Because I don’t commit crimes. But I’m not sure what’s so “tough” about calling a prison supermax despite the offender’s families not liking it. If that’s as bad as it got, it wouldn’t be a deterrent against recidivism.

    • @chris-lf7on
      @chris-lf7on Před 4 lety +5

      Whats so offensive about "super max", two of the most positive words in the english language.

    • @skatedonut952
      @skatedonut952 Před 3 lety +2

      MechWarrior894 if not breaking the law is hard then there would be no laws. These “people” have victims. The way of the liberal left give the criminal more rights than the victims deserve. You’re a sheep.

    • @lakelurker08
      @lakelurker08 Před 3 lety

      This comment and reply thread in a nutshell 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

  • @leescott2069
    @leescott2069 Před 4 lety

    Informative, interesting and i really enjoy that thank you.

  • @peeeae
    @peeeae Před 4 lety +41

    He died on May 11, 2019
    Edit: okay just realized someone else commented this. I didnt steal their answer I just looked it up so no hate plz

  • @Abby-up8yd
    @Abby-up8yd Před 4 lety +45

    Although Tom Silvertine did several horrendous acts, the cruel bullying, per say, up on him was equally horrendous and unjust. This, no matter what an inmate had done, will NOT allow them to become a better person, and based on Tom's stories, this shows that restoring the humanity in prisoners is not their goal

    • @twanvanderdonk2504
      @twanvanderdonk2504 Před 4 lety +4

      Bullying is more horrendous than over 100 stabs (total) done to victims? You realise that he was just stabbing a dead body at that point? Not sure about you, but I think people like that can never be allowed back in society.

    • @kingofmystery1135
      @kingofmystery1135 Před 4 lety +1

      He was bullied for being Jewish, when he was a KID. That kind of stuff messes with your head. The harassment from the guards only made it worse. He may have had the potential to be a normal person, but the way he was treated only made that light fade away. I can understand sending someone to prison for robbery, but when the guards act like some High school bully, instead of treating the inmates like a person, it will only make things worse.

    • @getsinged7631
      @getsinged7631 Před 4 lety +1

      @@kingofmystery1135 Just because he said the guards treated him that way, that doesn't necessarily mean it's true. History is written by the victor, and as the killer and not the killed, he is the only one who gets to tell a story. The people he murdered don't get to tell their side of the story, though official police investigations found that what he said was not true.

  • @clarissamcpigeon7857
    @clarissamcpigeon7857 Před 4 lety +4

    The beginning of his story is EXACTLY like Charles Bronson.
    Bronson's first prison sentence was also for armed robbery (although he had a prior record for other crimes). He got seven years for that but it was his later conduct in prison which kept him inside for so long.

  • @QuebecsMonster
    @QuebecsMonster Před 4 lety +1

    Do a podcast!!! You would have some really really interesting stories ik you tell them in the video but sometimes it's nice to listen while you are working or driving.

  • @blizzbee
    @blizzbee Před 4 lety +155

    Plot twist: All the script of this episode is written by... Tom

  • @zaneyrxnf
    @zaneyrxnf Před 4 lety +739

    Hey person scrolling through the comments
    U HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY!🧡

    • @1eye1tear95
      @1eye1tear95 Před 4 lety +5

      Kids don't break the law your all joking about it now and probably don't got the guts to even ask a girl out but when your in in jail or juvie the guards will abuse and beat you the left side of my stomach is paralyzed now

    • @Ok-cx4jw
      @Ok-cx4jw Před 4 lety +5

      U too also guy above me u need to chill and grab a cold glass of water

    • @rishi_1003
      @rishi_1003 Před 4 lety

      @@1eye1tear95 Alright but what you smokin' ? Let me have some too

    • @robinthrill3r7
      @robinthrill3r7 Před 4 lety

      U too

    • @frizzy9919
      @frizzy9919 Před 4 lety +11

      Thanks cuz my dog that lived with us a long time while my mother was still studying so hes passed away today
      👇plz like true story im so sad today

  • @jerrywbrice
    @jerrywbrice Před 4 lety +2

    The animations of the cops are hilarious. Nice work!

  • @-izria-841
    @-izria-841 Před 3 lety +10

    This man went through quarantine but worse

  • @jimbojackson4045
    @jimbojackson4045 Před 4 lety +46

    He killed 4 ppl & that's his punishment?! That doesn't sound fair. There's no way there isn't someone more deserving of that out there

    • @mortonic2019
      @mortonic2019 Před 4 lety +16

      True people that have done worse have got out in about 10 years

    • @CheaterMega
      @CheaterMega Před 4 lety

      @Thomas Foley he died 7 months ago lol

    • @CheaterMega
      @CheaterMega Před 4 lety

      @Thomas Foley agree

    • @David16180
      @David16180 Před 4 lety +6

      Well he killed guards, and as we all know, a cops life is worth more than the lives of ordinary people.

  • @fanelex3189
    @fanelex3189 Před 4 lety +475

    He cursed in a Christian Minecraft server that’s why he went to solitary confinement.

  • @aradzanjanian9382
    @aradzanjanian9382 Před 2 lety

    this video was so educatinal I'm writing this on my new chromebook

  • @dalewalkingjr4687
    @dalewalkingjr4687 Před 3 lety

    ive made a full loop took like 13 videos and lots of time but so worth it

  • @ViolentKisses87
    @ViolentKisses87 Před 4 lety +160

    Rehabilitate those you can, Execute those you can't.

    • @WShoup9818
      @WShoup9818 Před 4 lety +6

      It was like that back than but now everyone tries to give the lightest punishment possible to avoid being to cruel or being called inhumane.

    • @picgmr1575
      @picgmr1575 Před 4 lety +18

      The American penal system doesnt rehabilitate

    • @picgmr1575
      @picgmr1575 Před 4 lety +1

      @@gorgthesalty exactly

    • @thraitor7819
      @thraitor7819 Před 4 lety

      Dont execute full stop

    • @potatopaced2353
      @potatopaced2353 Před 4 lety +1

      @@picgmr1575 Some prisons have programs for it

  • @mr.personhumanson6871
    @mr.personhumanson6871 Před 4 lety +107

    seems like the death penalty is more humane than this

    • @alcoholic402
      @alcoholic402 Před 4 lety +1

      Honestly

    • @boredmad8484
      @boredmad8484 Před 4 lety +1

      Agreed. Right to die with dignity.

    • @trevorlane2869
      @trevorlane2869 Před 4 lety +7

      He doesn't deserve a humane death

    • @gavinhicks546
      @gavinhicks546 Před 4 lety +8

      @@trevorlane2869 and that's up to you to decide? The prison system is meant to rehabilitate people so that they can re-enter society locking someone up for there entire life without seeing a single person for killing less than the common serial killer is just inhumane on many levels.

    • @adojaekey1031
      @adojaekey1031 Před 4 lety +2

      @@gavinhicks546 no, the prison system is to ensure alleged offenders are brought to justice, and this is what he deserves

  • @elijahj-l825
    @elijahj-l825 Před 4 lety

    These videos are always interesting🧐

  • @YeshuaAgapao
    @YeshuaAgapao Před 4 lety +20

    My dad worked his whole life at US BOP (bureau of prisons). Prison is for containment - keeping the criminals out of society. He mostly worked in medium security prisons.

    • @MorreGaming
      @MorreGaming Před 4 lety +1

      Thats cool man

    • @YeshuaAgapao
      @YeshuaAgapao Před 3 lety

      @@dylanbutts1628 A containment doctrine can very well lead to additional criminalization because they are treated is incorrigible criminals that need to be locked away to begin with. Federal BOP there is rehab at minimum and low security and less rehab at medium security, but at high and max security, the doctrine is 100% containment (high may have some pre-release programs near end of sentence).

  • @user-vn7ce5ig1z
    @user-vn7ce5ig1z Před 4 lety +84

    You know what else is a crime against humanity? The actual _crimes_ that they did that landed them there in the first place. Sure, occasionally an innocent person is wrongly convicted, but they don't usually end up murdering a bunch of people in prison and getting thrown in solitary. The ones that do are the ones that are guilty. ¬_¬

    • @patrickholland901
      @patrickholland901 Před 4 lety +3

      More than occasionally according to the Innocence project unfortunately!

    • @misakayy1911
      @misakayy1911 Před 4 lety +14

      "THE PENAL SYSTEM IS NEVER WRONG EVER"
      ok

    • @TheWazzoGames
      @TheWazzoGames Před 2 lety +2

      @@misakayy1911 clearly not in this case

    • @4ws_
      @4ws_ Před 2 lety

      I disagree

  • @thepurpleman119
    @thepurpleman119 Před 4 lety +41

    *he’s already dead he died on May 11, 2019. he was 67 years old when he died*

  • @troytab3087
    @troytab3087 Před 3 lety +1

    Love the soundtrack

  • @agishrimpton8807
    @agishrimpton8807 Před 4 lety +2

    0:28 it sounded like he dropped some bars along with da beat

  • @elijahabuel
    @elijahabuel Před 4 lety +103

    why do we have to throw people behind bars and treat them like animals instead of help them recover from mental sicknesses. if you treat them like animals, they become animals. As soon as they do something bad we immediately forget that they're still human.

    • @michaelnorris3628
      @michaelnorris3628 Před 4 lety +19

      You mean like stab someone 60 times? How human.....

    • @ronaldcole6101
      @ronaldcole6101 Před 4 lety +26

      If he killed your mother then you would change your tone.

    • @joshsmit779
      @joshsmit779 Před 4 lety +14

      The private prison system makes a lot of money by selling that ideology and getting money from the government to house the prisoners. It is in their best interest to make the prisoners into better criminals or even encourage crimes to occur inside the prison so that they can get more time.

    • @kittenmimi5326
      @kittenmimi5326 Před 4 lety +8

      Because they act like animals... or even much worse. Sure guards should just do their job properly, no need for the extra tormenting, but If he wasn't in solitary confinement he'd keep killing people and it's not like he'll stop.

    • @scpfoundationagentsmith9301
      @scpfoundationagentsmith9301 Před 4 lety +6

      Do the crime do the time simple as that if you act like an animal youll be treated as such

  • @outofthenorm5087
    @outofthenorm5087 Před 4 lety +320

    Although his crimes were quite heinous I feel that no single soul should have to go thorough what he did.
    That's inhumane man.
    Anyways...
    Have a great day everyone.

    • @sosman64
      @sosman64 Před 4 lety +4

      Same To You OwO

    • @judocuh3064
      @judocuh3064 Před 4 lety +31

      What he did and how he killed people was inhumane

    • @dreadwolf4927
      @dreadwolf4927 Před 4 lety +21

      @@judocuh3064 he only killed idiots, and they deserved it.

    • @tjmodz5082
      @tjmodz5082 Před 4 lety +9

      @@dreadwolf4927 Thats not true you gonna believe a murderer over a complete investigation the guard did nothing wrong muppet

    • @dreadwolf4927
      @dreadwolf4927 Před 4 lety +20

      @@tjmodz5082 So naive.

  • @specialanims1279
    @specialanims1279 Před 4 lety +4

    This is very interesting I've already watched 7 videos

  • @tuckerperry8503
    @tuckerperry8503 Před 4 lety +2

    I live 10 minutes away from Marion and the prison is still famous but I had never heard of this.

  • @kevinconiglio4054
    @kevinconiglio4054 Před 4 lety +87

    Prison guard: *exists*
    Silverstein: I'm about to end this mans whole career

  • @matthew4134
    @matthew4134 Před 4 lety +83

    Are we not gonna talk about these poor people who got murdered sorry to there families

  • @99SOUTHx
    @99SOUTHx Před 4 lety

    Nice video

  • @craigowenlindvalljr8300
    @craigowenlindvalljr8300 Před 4 lety +4

    I did 5 years in Federal prison. Most of my time in FCI Beckley WV. I will say guards have done some very heinous thing's to myself and friends. Things that would justify prison sentences for the guards. But in Silverstein's situation he killed two guards! You can't commit something like that than complain about being treated badly! And Tommy silverware Silverstein died in May of 2019.

  • @HappyTofu2424
    @HappyTofu2424 Před 4 lety +26

    For the record, he died this year in May

  • @taventube2151
    @taventube2151 Před 4 lety +14

    Using evil to destroy evil is not the right way

    • @YungEx_TheBest
      @YungEx_TheBest Před 4 lety +1

      Dartaven Fosnaugh sadly, people think that’s justified

  • @ono7022
    @ono7022 Před 4 lety +50

    So how’s everyone’s quarantine going lol 😂

  • @lilwoody4789
    @lilwoody4789 Před 4 lety +1

    Try looking into Rudolf Hess. He was in Spando prison in solitary for more time than these examples.

  • @romanvasylyev6430
    @romanvasylyev6430 Před 4 lety +4

    @The Infographics Show - I liked how you used the Doom 1 pain sound at 3:28 on the background, this is to show how much attention I pay to your videos, can you confirm?

  • @dogmgfuckshitmcgee4656
    @dogmgfuckshitmcgee4656 Před 4 lety +3

    I love how some say it’s too harsh lol. Dudes a killa!

  • @pathmor
    @pathmor Před 4 lety

    Silverstein died in a city near where I live. Lakewood is around 15 minutes away from my house. I know his death had no correlation to my existence, but it’s super weird to think about.

  • @cripplefromwuhan5150
    @cripplefromwuhan5150 Před 4 lety +43

    You know what's ironic it's independence day and his talking about someone getting locked up in isolation permanently

  • @jaka855
    @jaka855 Před 4 lety +20

    He's already dead he died in May of 11 2019. He was 67 years old he died in lakewood,Colorado. Becuse of a hart failure. Now we know what was his diseases he had problems with his hart.

    • @r1co414
      @r1co414 Před 4 lety

      Ikr I'm like confused as to how they didn't notice that

    • @kibbletibbleyt
      @kibbletibbleyt Před 4 lety

      ..
      heart**-

    • @peachymilkuwu8417
      @peachymilkuwu8417 Před 4 lety +1

      It was probably felt made a while ago and that’s why they say at the beginning he might not even be alive by the time you’re watching this is a lot of channels like this have stuff pre-filmed

    • @getsinged7631
      @getsinged7631 Před 4 lety

      Information about prisoners in solitary confinement likely isn't readily available at any given time. He prefaced the video saying the inmate might not be alive, most likely because there was no recent information available. His death had not yet been announced.

  • @renispeja5709
    @renispeja5709 Před 4 lety

    💯 keep it up

  • @Zack-pl9np
    @Zack-pl9np Před 4 lety +7

    Tommy did pass away at the age of 67 on may of 2019

  • @LoonaBolti
    @LoonaBolti Před 4 lety +27

    I don't get it. If he is never going to get out and is so dangerous to those around him, PUT HIM DOWN! I hate that we have to pay to keep someone like this alive

    • @XIII_Vanitas
      @XIII_Vanitas Před 4 lety +5

      An execution is actually more expensive than a life sentence.

    • @alexporter7379
      @alexporter7379 Před 4 lety +1

      @@XIII_Vanitas firing squads are cheaper than a case if toilet paper

    • @yukigiro17
      @yukigiro17 Před 4 lety +1

      @Alex Porter Yes, and now we can use drones if the men in the firing squads doesn't want to do it.

    • @haleighbonk6670
      @haleighbonk6670 Před 4 lety

      Alex Porter The problem there is the 20 year average waiting period before the actual execution, plus the cost of several appeals and hearings whenever new evidence is brought forth... they all add up. And the prisoner isn’t the one paying for them. Simply providing food and shelter until they die actually works out to be cheaper, although definitely less humane.

  • @AlexDefiant
    @AlexDefiant Před 4 lety +5

    2:54 that uncle be giving me nightmares...

  • @adog4733
    @adog4733 Před 4 lety +4

    Jail is supposed to rehabilitate criminals, not make them worse

    • @djb1928
      @djb1928 Před 4 lety

      Jail isn't suppose to rehabilitate criminals. Almost at no point in human history (until very recently) was jail/prison used as a means to improve criminal behavior.

  • @cyberathlete
    @cyberathlete Před 4 lety +1

    Where can I get the music track you used in this video? Thanks!

  • @mingebag3702
    @mingebag3702 Před 4 lety +6

    3:26 is that the doom guy pain sound from doom 1 and 2

  • @adolfhitler3870
    @adolfhitler3870 Před 4 lety +77

    "If somone comes at u with a bat u grab ur bat and u go at it" that is the best quote ever
    But if ur never getting out then u might as well keep in killing what's the worst that can happen they put u in jail agian

    • @mimic4750
      @mimic4750 Před 4 lety +2

      Smaller jail in a jail?

    • @visnau1126
      @visnau1126 Před 4 lety +5

      no they put you in solitary

    • @niles1492
      @niles1492 Před 4 lety

      You'll go to Solitary, slowly lose your sanity... u don't speak, or see anyone for months, or worse case years. *not sure about years* 😂

    • @adolfhitler3870
      @adolfhitler3870 Před 4 lety

      @@gorgthesalty I used to take a tent my bow a knife and a lighter and I would spend a few weeks in the woods my recored so far is 2 months but it's not the solitude that makes u insane it's all the white

  • @Flamingtorso
    @Flamingtorso Před 4 lety +22

    If they send him to California, he'd be released within months.

  • @retard_activated
    @retard_activated Před 2 lety +1

    I love how the background people are almost always saying "Blah blah blah, blub blah blah blah blah" 🤣 I couldn't agree more! 🤣🤣🤣

  • @turqeeman
    @turqeeman Před 4 lety +12

    Solitary confinement and there's mention of a blog post? You kids are crazy

  • @napoli9208
    @napoli9208 Před 4 lety +15

    I’ve been living in isolation longer than Silverstein. Feeding on a balanced diet of memes and anime.

  • @angusarmstrong6526
    @angusarmstrong6526 Před 4 lety

    Clutz!! Brilliant

  • @z4niiiii
    @z4niiiii Před 4 lety

    I live in LB (Long Beach), CA...🥺

  • @demetriusmccray1574
    @demetriusmccray1574 Před 4 lety +14

    This is exactly why I have been saying say, the states are probably the dumbest thing since you lot started claiming Alaska way back when.