Colorado’s penitentiary, ADX Florence, is perhaps the most secure prison the world has ever seen. It is said that prison here consider themselves lucky if they ever get to see the sun.
Alcatraz has housed prisoners like Al Capone, Whitey Bulger and Rafael Miranda. Located on an island 2 kilometres off the shore of San Francisco, only 5 of the 14 prison escape attempts ever made were unaccounted for.
Built in 1867, in the very heart of the national capital, Paris, France’s La Santé Prison is one of the most famous prisons in the world. It is notoriously known for being the prison that once one goes to, then they are not going to come out of it.
It is Mumbai's largest and oldest central prison which was built in 1926. Apart from the run-down prison conditions and obvious human rights infringement speculation, no prisoner has ever been known to break out, and no outsider has ever been able to break in.
Few details are known about the Fuchu Prison in the western region of Tokyo, which has also played host to World War II prisoners in the past. It has the most advanced security measures of all.
Few details are known about the Fuchu Prison in the western region of Tokyo, which has also played host to World War II prisoners in the past. Many of the Al-Qaeda suspects were kept in this prison in the past.
HM Prison Belmarsh in Greenwich in South East London is where ‘category A’ prisoners are, as deemed by Her Majesty. The security level at the facility is high enough for it to have earned the nickname, ‘British Guantanamo’.