Inside the World’s Toughest prison
1) El Hongo prison-Mexico
This is a maximum security complex where over 1,000 of the most dangerous criminals in mexico are locked up. The El Hongo prison lies just 10 miles south of the US border. the prison is designed to function like an American super max penitentiary that consists of cells and standalone high security blocks.
In the prison the must notorious block is the Echo block- A control unit where the high-profile and high-risk inmates are held. such as kidnappers,Armed Robbers, Drug lords and cartel members.
In this prison, heavily armed guards secure the prisons fortified perimeter 24 hours a day.every second of everyday, the prisoners are monitored and controlled by the guards, there is zero tolerance for drugs and tobacco.
Every night they take roll calls block by block, the guards use high tech security measures to match inmate”s fingerprints and pictures.
2.) Rizal Provincial Jail Philippines
This prison in the rural part of Philippines is home to over 150 inmates – 130 men and 20 women most of them are awaiting trial for murder, Rape, Robbery and for drug charges.
Inside the jail, a notorious gang controls every activity in the jail- the gang name is the Sptnik gang. The gang is in charge of discipline as the prison guard secure the outside perimetre of the prison.This jail is overcrowded and underfunded.
Most inmates here are on Remand, awaiting the trials but no certainty of when their case will be heard, many of them stay in jail for years before their cases are even touched because the justice system is overwork i think it is because of the high crime rate in Philippine.
The system in this system is so corrupt that the lock up mentally ill people too.
Although at midnight an official head count to done. with not much of surveillance, the inmates are left on their own, with little or no amminities.
