[Prison fact 1] In one of the worst prison disasters in US history, 322 inmates were killed and 150 injured when a fire broke out in the Ohio State Penn on April 21, 1930. When some guards refused to let inmates out of their cells, other inmates overpowered the guards to rescue fellow prisoners.
[Prison fact 2] In 2013, a prisoner named Dagens Nyheter in Sweden escaped “because he had a toothache and wanted to go to the dentist.” He broke out of prison, visited the dentist, and turned himself back in where he received an extra day to his month-long sentence as punishment.
[Prison fact 3] 250 Union soldiers surrendered to the Confederates, enlisted in the Confederate Army while held as POWS, were recaptured by the Union Army, and then re-enlisted as Union soldiers. They were called Galvanized Yankees.
[Prison fact 4] Ramen noodles are now used more in bartering than tobacco products in prison.
[Prison fact 5] In the United States, any violent crime committed with a gun equipped with a suppressor has a minimum prison sentence of 30 years.
[Prison fact 6] The highest prison rates in the world are in the United States, at 724 people per 100,000. In Russia, the rate is 581.
[Prison fact 7] An increasing number of elderly Japanese people are committing small crimes so they can live in prison for free. People aged more than 65 now make up more than a quarter of the prison population in Japan.
[Prison fact 8] In Brazil, some inmates have the opportunity to reduce their sentences by reading books and writing book reports. They can reduce their sentence by up to 4 days (up to 48 days per year) for each book they read.
[Prison fact 9] A man named Joseph Palmer was attacked for having a beard in 1830, then imprisoned for defending himself. He died in 1873, by which time beards were fashionable. His tombstone reads, "Persecuted for wearing the beard."
[Prison fact 10] Terence Kirk was an American soldier who was captured by the Japanese on the day they bombed Pearl Harbor. He spent the entire war at a brutal prison camp. While there, he built a camera out of scrap and took many pictures. After the war, he was put under a gag order, and only told his story 38 years later.
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