Behind Bars: The World’s Toughest Prisons - Sofia Central Prison, Bulgaria | Free Documentary

Behind Bars - Episode 5: Sofia Central Prison, Bulgaria | Prison Documentary
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With a crumbling foundation more than fit for demolition, the conditions in Sofia Central prison is inhospitable for anyone, including criminals. However, with multiple prisoner cells, bunks stacked 3 stories high and horrid isolation cells, prisoners live idly behind bars for 23 hours a day.
The series accompanies guards on their daily routines: those who struggle to maintain law and order and those who abuse their powers mercilessly. But above all, each episode allows the viewer to see the world from the prisoner’s point of view: the newcomer spending his first terrifying night locked up. Felons who live for the day when their fate will be decided: will it be life behind bars? A worse fate? Foreigners, far away from home, languishing away under the most horrendous conditions. And mothers who have to raise their children in the shadow of prison bars.
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[@sugarskullcrunchasmr2210]

It’s brutal place

[@solanyecaignet1308]

@@sugarskullcrunchasmr2210 Jails are supposed to rehabilitate prisoners, obviously this is not happening in many of the prisons. It´s really tremendous!!

[@MsDelola]

@@solanyecaignet1308 they r bein rehabilitated.they have the oppurtunity to look at and possibly be grateful for what they,may,have had before prison.the hope is they will make changes when they get out and not come back.

[@jacekplewa1954]

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[@NHSSHINOBI]

@@jacekplewa1954 wtf

[@dexterkoula3407]

damnit, why can't I stop watching all of these?

[@Serbian1985]

Because it makes us appreciate being free. I spend 1 day in jail in US and it sucked ass, no matter our difficulties in life , always appreciate freedom because its priceless

[@snow49032]

They are so good. The Madagascar one is INSANE

[@Ellasarr]

Dexter Koula sammmeeee

[@vZoinked]

snow49032 where’s that one I wanna watch it

[@toddstanford9831]

same lol

[@Ellasarr]

“More on that later” it’s become an iconic line from the narrator the more you hear it each video 😂

[@misslisamarie2994]

Lol I noticed that as well I have been binge watching these. I wonder where they find these narrators, it's crazy how perfectly his voice fits with the topic.

[@opiateexperiment2022]

I love it lol

[@pylandatti1412]

@@misslisamarie2994 right I picture I tall middle aged white guy narrating in a dark corner somewhere lol

[@CookieIsMyBaby]

Its super annoying to me

[@Salomon_G]

@@CookieIsMyBaby I agree, but... ...more on that later.

[@crocrocroatian]

I think the narrator fears this prison more than the inmates themselves, but more on that later

[@IsaacESFR]

It has been a year already when are you going to follow up on the story

[@crocrocroatian]

@@IsaacESFR I love you

[@IsaacESFR]

@@crocrocroatian wow, that's a nice development

[@marissasue319]

@@IsaacESFR Exactly! I can't stop watching these and I find myself so invested with the people being interviewed; wondering if things got better for everyone after it aired and stuff... sighzzzzz :/ I need follow-ups :/

[@princecartwright645]

I love you 💕

[@nbss]

Funny thing about this prison it was built in early 20th century when Sofia was way smaller and it was situated in the outskirts of the city, but now when the city grew bigger it is surrounded by apartment buildings.I have a friend whose balcony has a perfect view of the prison yard.

[@busterhikney6936]

That's not funny, that's fking Hilarious!

[@walker3551]

Does he rent it out for holidays?

[@MrVladiston]

I use to live on the opposite side of the prison, now I live on the opposite side of my home :)

[@HardstyleBulgaria]

@@MrVladiston axaxax

[@sorrowstaylor2910]

Вчера живееше срещу затвора, днес живее срещу вкъщи....

[@paco_is_a_taco1295]

Well. A terrible broken prison. But.. Madagascar takes the cake...

[@Mitch-zr4wb]

More on that later

[@pylandatti1412]

Right that one was the worst I've ever seen not to mention all the inmates "vanishing "

[@Itzblossomplayz]

Madagascar's jail makes the Philippines jail look like a 2 star hotel. I'll take the cold and the beatings here anytime.

[@LaRedPDX]

I don't know what my name is Nope. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

[@Beatusable]

You should see the Russian prison in Siberia! Special compartment for killers.

[@snow49032]

Just make the prisoners watch the “Madagascar” episode. They’ll never complain again! 😂

[@misslisamarie2994]

Is that the one with the rats, that carry the fleas that are transmitting the plague?

[@greghatfieldjr2658]

Miss LisaMarie yes that’s the one

[@curtisnelson6968]

The Madagascar episode is by far the worse one I seen .

[@ydbetan]

Lmao right !! Or San Pedro one

[@pylandatti1412]

@@curtisnelson6968 not to mention the inmates "vanishing" lol

[@rad_y6315]

Hi from Bulgaria. Jock Palfreeman was released in 2019. I think he worked for inmate rights, he learned Bulgarian perfectly and as I believe he studied law during the time he served. Regarding the verdict i am not sure what he says is true, because there's a video tape of the incident and it's obvious that he stabbed the guy approaching from his back. The victim was a law student and son of prominent Bulgarian prosecutor. Palfreeman has similar stories in his past - stabbing a guy in Australia - case went without consequences due to lack of evidence. I personally don't know what to think about him - i am admired that he learned Bulgarian and he was helpful for the society working for human rights. Regarding the prison - many years ago i was renting an apartment in one of the 4 high blocks near the prison - i could see the backyard from my terrace. I know that if one has money he's doing easy time - they usually have cellphones, they have TV, hotpot for cooking & other comfortable devices; relatives bring food and they're fine. They do have electricity but they have no heat and during the winter can be very cold. Years ago i knew someone who was in the prison and he was quite often online on Facebook, even posting photos. So if one has money and connections then he's okay. What they say about guards is true - they really beat the arrestees and inmates. I mean Bulgarian policemen can be really tough. You never know. In the past beating was much more. There were cases in the past when police beat to death an inmate. I don't think is as bad anymore. In general public trust and evaluation of the police is quite low. However things are slowly improving.

[@biaritzsiroko6117]

thanks very good information!

[@CFarnwide]

Thank you for the insight

[@robertperrine1212]

Thank you for more info on jock and the prison

[@carlstanton2550]

Thanks for the update! Your English is very good, thanks for taking the time to write all the information out for us.

[@knoxklay11]

He strikes me as a far-left agitator type. Not surprised to hear he was the aggressor. Those types always tend to be snakes that strike and then make like theyre the victim after they get caught and punished.

[@Wokculture69]

Comment section: 50% Madagascar 40% Wrong translation 10% something about USA

[@brittanyhyatt3407]

Host: There's no tougher prison than Sofia.. Madagascar: hold my cockroaches

[@TheBubblephobia]

LOL

[@TheBubblephobia]

Bulgaria : 20 Sq Ft allowed Madagascar: 0 Sq Ft allowed

[@GoldenDawnNow]

Brittany Dugger *Madagascar is not a prison but some camp or some emigrant camp, look Nothing like a prison*

[@papafrankupleasereturn4225]

I live with cockroaches so I kinda relate

[@GamingPro-dn3us]

Lol COCKROACH

[@iztok252]

when you watch one of these shows and you're from one of these countries, you start to realize how the reporters skew the whole rhetoric so as not to interfere with the message they're trying to send across, the guard used the inmate's first name and told him to go back inside, they didn't translate it like that

[@PoohhNani]

Oh yea for sure. Ive seen a few examples where they really exaggerate or just straight up lie to keep their agenda going in the direction they want. I can imagine this one is too. I know the one before this on in Armenia was a piece of cake and they were acting like it was the toughest place in the country lol

[@neykodimov2786]

Yep!! Just realized that too

[@legion9353]

Fr, i thought that something didnt add up, thanks to the 15-20 words bulgarians taught me 😅

[@eatincrabmeats]

After watching madagascar, none of the other episodes are entertaining lol

[@francelinamommyof3204]

So very true 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@marissasue319]

Entertaining?????!!!!! Uhhmm, I'm traumatized and scarred for life! Checkout the San Pedro prison in Bolivia, was it?? Yeah, I think it's Bolivia. It's INSANE and I've never seen one so blatantly open about the prisoners running the prison! This morning I woke up hopeless & depressed, thinking of those poor souls and the innocent wives/kids; wondering if any of them found relief after the documentary aired! And if any of them were able to make it on the outside upon release!

[@DoctorJug]

​@@marissasue319I watched san pedro last night. I couldn't stop thinking about it either. Literally INSANE

[@marissasue319]

@@DoctorJug 🤕🤒🥺💔🙇🏼‍♀️

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[@tristanclapton370]

"I covered myself in swastikas and now they think I'm a nazi" I MEAN

[@97Flyer]

1of 5 swastikas are nazis and others have nothing to do with nazis

[@mencot89]

he's saying it's famous in American prisons and he liked it. The way he thinks is so dumb and reeks of privilege. Obviously he dont have the capacity to understand all these things lol

[@twitertaker]

@Bella Donna Would you explain why you have that swastika on your wrist?

[@Paxezz]

@@twitertaker in hindu culture its a symbol for happiness or luck, and it had that meaning a long before hitler started using it

[@twitertaker]

@@Paxezz But do you guys really think the guy in the video is Hindu? He is european and a nazi.

[@bightonchinembiri3106]

Promised myself to stop watching these😂😂 that was yesterday at 10am, not sure how it's now 4am and am still watching

[@naydenzdravkov8999]

Me 2 😃

[@biaritzsiroko6117]

10 pm here and really told myself to stop watching but I feel it is pulling me like oh just watch the beginning of the next episode.. and you know what happens if I would do that.... lol

[@RONNIEJNZN]

These videos are such inspiration to not crime, at all but especially abroad.

[@luchezariordanov9445]

As a Bulgarian who understands the people who speak I want to say they translate not more than half the things prisoners say!!!

[@Cuzjudd]

Common theme for all these videos

[@chenellebeautytv]

Wow I see this in so many videos. They really need to change that.

[@thissucks8606]

Yeah that's why he kept repeating most things? You know what I don't want to be a bad person in life and especially after life? THE PRICE IS TO HIGH?

[@user-mw3sy5nz8s]

True

[@milekitic1737]

Не си само ти

[@Dollheirs]

Each inmate must have 4 square meters of space. Bulgaria doesn't care. Best line ever. 15:54

[@scamfather2663]

Hunnets man prisons lie. when i was in tha pen at Donovan st off the boarder of sd and tijuana we had 3 cellmates in a 9x4.5 room and only had rec 1-2 times a week for a hour. u cant trust wat comes from officers cuz they jus lie n basically torturing convicts

[@bigboner23]

SCAM FATHER cool story bro

[@mrvuki]

@@scamfather2663 xD in the balcans I was living 3 years in a dorm with 3 room mates in a room 3x3m lol. who da fuk made rules that prisoners have 4m2 each wtf. in the room al we had was 2 double beds and a small table.

[@mrvuki]

@Lazar Cvetkovic makedonija

[@panosnospa9615]

@@mrvuki ...ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΜΑΛΑΚΑ✝️🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@shokhrukhabdurakhimov4731]

The narrator says in 28:04 "like the Roma has to beg for pennies and food scraps." Actually it should not be the case. In my home country, there are many Romas. During the day they all beg, but they live luxury life. They are rich and live much better life than do local people. Begging is their historical job. They say "This is what our ancestors did, so should we"

[@marissasue319]

Huh?? Wow :O

[@thenoisyneighbour]

True

[@dustinclouse6888]

I've spent the last 5 minutes trying to figure out how to pronounce your name, I have to give up now

[@alundavies8402]

Not true really. Most were enslaved for centuries and are very behind because of it

[@user-vy2ll5nj5h]

In Bulgaria it is like that

[@stevec6965]

only prison i have seen where an inmate can wear an Air Jordan suit complete with Air Jordan 4's.

[@user-ln9bi1yj6l]

😂😂

[@haddingtoniangcp2464]

Jordan's, so good you wanna do time with them

[@dannyatkinson689]

I'm hooked on these been watching for 3 days lol

[@PoohhNani]

Lmao same. Ive watched like 8 of these the past 3 days. I was binge watching prison escape shows but I watched all them so now im watching this shit lolol

[@jenniferowusu7106]

Me too

[@africaisacontinent2149]

Same here

[@simba5412]

You think this will save you from imprisonment :-) haha

[@slytherinsky]

Still watching them after my “most dangerous roads binge”

[@Doomreb]

*More on that later...*

[@gevorghovhannisyan2731]

Doomreb, he always says that in almost every series of these documentaries!

[@Doomreb]

Well, we'll get to that later...

[@GamingPro-dn3us]

So much likes for a useless comment

[@husky_47]

Look the rosjan prizon in syberia...

[@jjohnson6406]

Whoever is in charge of the Madagascar prison system should be imprisoned.

[@marissasue319]

Y! E! S! And in Madagascar!

[@haddingtoniangcp2464]

Government is

[@casperblackcat1975]

The guards working In Madagascar even admit that the prison is inhunane but the country is so poor that the prison is last on the government's list of priorities.

[@zoesdada8923]

The "Roma" seem to be the same all over the world but more on that later.

[@aptate1988]

Zoes Dada 🤣🤣

[@ivanhendy6979]

Nice one

[@snoox27]

Classic

[@burekking5306]

Even on the moon, the gypsy is still a gypsy

[@carlosoliva6134]

'Here in a European capital, in Europe' Hahahaha More on that later

[@christheemperor7265]

United States prison is a cake walk compared to other countries

[@scamfather2663]

mr.chris mac it seems so but its not. wat makes tha pens here dif is the fact that you dont get any physical visitations and a majority of the time your Visitations are over facetime and not in person and thats what gets to ppl most and why US prisons are feared. Outside the US prisons it's just as dangerous just usually dirtier and you get more things to do then u would here in US.

[@thealchemist69666]

Same at our prisons dumbass

[@waynejr7068]

Because they make them manufacture goods for sale in the US so they have to keep them healthy

[@danielcamacho7331]

Hey, is not just a cake walk....It's also one of the best schools for career criminals!

[@misslisamarie2994]

you are right inmates in America wouldn't last in some of these foreign prisons! Did you watch the episode on the prison listed as USA worst? The tent city in Phoenix, Arizona. I agree that has to be the closest in similarity to some of the other countries prison's. But still in actuality, would probably be like a resort to those in these other prisons. Yikes

[@jamesgolder373]

May have to go to bed soon and stop binge watching these episodes... MORE ON THAT LATER

[@austinteutsch]

Every prison in this series is a cake walk compared to Madagascar. I've never seen anyone treated like that in my life. Beds? What's that? Sheets and pillows? Where? Water to bathe with? No where in sight. It really is the absolute worse in the world hands down. And everyone of them is WAITING FOR A TRIAL DATE, often times years at a time!!

[@dustinclouse6888]

Remember the 78 year old guy that had been there for 38 years, never had a trial and was never even given a reason why he was there? Damn man

[@fireice9763]

maybe paragvay,bolivia and south africa can be compared

[@Error_-qz2zr]

​@@fireice9763latin American jails are dangerous but atleast you can roam free on a lot of them look like a small village, you can get anything in there if you have money

[@bigbackcentral]

at 11:38 when he's about to describe the 4th floor, it just cuts off and he doesn't finish, anyone else find that a bit weird...??

[@ryanjones4917]

I caught that too. I didn't notice it in any other episode.

[@nzzs203]

Because 🤫shhhhhh.... It's a secret.

[@VinnyVincenzoYo]

N Z Z S lol right, it’s like that 13th floor or whatever in the North Korean hotel that no one can visit.

[@LaRedPDX]

Sounded like “The fip........” before it cut out

[@michaelmanzo4661]

Yeah I caught that too as soon as they said feet it cut off LOL

[@benjaminjones-gf2db]

After that Madagascar one all theese seem humane

[@nzzs203]

Ikr??? I mean,,,damn... That was messed up.

[@africaisacontinent2149]

That prison needs to be deleted

[@GoldenDawnNow]

benjamin jones *Madagascar is mor emigrant camp then prison*

[@mv0921_]

@@GoldenDawnNow true it comapres to sum of the WW2 camps . I mean at least they get food . God dam even the food is a repeat wtf

[@Asad-kw3ty]

Here violence is the main problem but there hyigene

[@puggie1019]

The cells where they keep the foreign prisoners look like college dormitories.

[@marissasue319]

YES! And so clean & cosy, with computers & kitchen and everything! Lucky foreigners!

[@childrensorg856]

I thought at first they walked into an office. The foreigners shouldn't really complain.

[@mladjiinspektor493]

Haha almost in every video, every second comment is about Madagascar.

[@vminnvkookshipper4670]

That was horrible 🤣🤣

[@thesolocourier8946]

LMAO This is probably the only prison in Europe that they put is security cameras in the prison because of the guards not the prisoners.

[@sontrillthereal8186]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rcllagas2697]

Hahahaha damn xD

[@Wokculture69]

In Greece it's the same , people are even tortured at the police stations for their political beliefs

[@rnik8156]

@@Wokculture69 because of multiple criminal activity of the guards(dealing heroin, beating prisoners, smugling knives and stuff), corruption comes from top to the bottom.

[@Beatusable]

Anti-Bulgarian propaganda regarding the village pictures. Gypsy ghetos are not Bulgarian to begin with.

[@user-ve2sm4sp7o]

@123 Var you don't know nothing about gypsys in Bulgaria :D trust me nothing

[@terminallove3531]

@@user-ve2sm4sp7o He doesn't know anything about gypsies anywhere.

[@Goldsrc17]

България така изглежда. Каква пропаганда бе

[@TervelBG]

Despite being 0.5% of Sofian population, gypsies comprise over 50% of the inmates 😁

[@jennbatch6377]

Racism?

[@rotshepherd3817]

As a bulgarian i can confirm the comments on the corruption and crime thing,we do have a financial problem as well. spot on.

[@ElNegus9985]

@Milko Kalaijiev no u gypsies

[@doodoobonejones]

"It really is the worst to get stabbed in the face and neck." Damn I was planning on getting stabbed there

[@staceyherd4643]

Bfl

[@TooLameToDie]

Glad i read this comment...I'm on the phone with my guy now calling the whole thing off.

[@marissasue319]

@@TooLameToDie LOL :D :D :D

[@farafaramissfara]

@TooLameToDie 😂😂

[@pietro_ferrari]

7:00 Ibrahimovic in criminal life 😂😂

[@eric81872]

Thank you for the video! ☺♥

[@dillingersam588]

thank you for posting

[@DomEngines]

The jail director during the "failed escape attempt" acted guilty as sin. His body language and the eye contact are so obvious.

[@isaiahmajka3030]

I really need to get up and get dinner going! But more on that later😂

[@stanford2590]

🤣🤣

[@andysaunders3708]

Going to prison is THE punishment, i.e. loss of liberty. You shouldn't be imprisoned to BE punished.

[@user-mf5ue6rc5n]

Death penalty?

[@boostedhub7762]

This documentary would've been 100 times better if you only had subtitles instead of dubbing..

[@arttugrann6185]

I disagree. It's great when shows are dubbed you can sometimes just listen to them like a podcast. And reading text from the lower portion of the screen distracts you away from the actual video a little bit.

[@itsmewhoknows]

@@arttugrann6185 stfu little dog, the dubbing in these docs usually is mistranslated and thus gives off the wrong meaning most of the time.

[@bustarogers9990]

Something really of about that Aussie guy. I hate it how they make it look as if all these criminals that proclaim their innocence are actually innocent. Give us the details and facts so we can make up our own mind. Edit....read a few more comments below and low and behold it seems he's a nutter and sounds like he murdered his victim in cold blood , and had stabbed somebody back home in Australia as well.

[@bellakatherman1477]

Busta Rogers nah...he is guilty of sticking his nose in some shit that had nothing to do with himself...but murder, no..he was assaulted by a gang of drunk students who beat him down kicked him and smacked him with some chunks of concrete..the goof who died had a bac of 2.9% hell, he might’ve died from alcohol poisoning anyway....but his affluent daddy used his 💵 influence to insure the trial was skewed heavily to the prosecution,and all exculpatory evidence suppressed and palfreeman was convicted....served 12 out of a 20 year sentence and released last year sometime,idk if he made it home to australia tho

[@blueshizophrenia1056]

6:53 ibrahimovic after quarantine

[@sketchturner6669]

I recently bought an apartment close to this prison. I think they are currently preparing to build a bigger prison outside the city, because this one is on the brink of collapsing. And as every government structure in Bulgaria, this one is corrupt to its roots.

[@navindranv]

Excellent content!!!

[@hannahnichelle86]

That video when they had to fight each other like dogs low key scared the hell out of me

[@kristianfranklin2374]

RIGHT!!!!! Nothing low key about it for me I was SHOOK!!!!!

[@deniz2783]

This is just part of the clips coming out of this prison. Apart from sexual perverts in public. I watched simulations of hanging and strangling, organizing a duel between 'second class' Roma. Pedophiles and rapists are also targeted by 'first class' prisoners

[@hristoskof1]

I can't say I'm shocked... Have you ever heard of the "Stanford prison experiment"? Now that IS shocking! Look that up and everything here will make sense to you, but be warned - it's not a pleasant discovery to make, mildly put!

[@Beatusable]

@@hristoskof1 Not to mention Guantanamo.

[@bonson9156]

The narration is repetitive

[@PoohhNani]

As fuckkkkkkkk

[@PoohhNani]

*_More on that later..._*

[@oxgiven5377]

It’s a tv documentary so those pauses?!?!repetition in the middle are like right b4 advertisements.

[@Beatusable]

Yes, sounds like Propaganda. And what the hell geography has to do with prison?!!

[@Kredo800]

And in 50% is a lie if you understand other languages.

[@Cochise6666]

I don't think Jaques will enjoy a clean- ish cell with a computer after the Warden sees this documentary. He's there for a while, he should be careful. Props to him for being bold though.

[@darianistead2239]

When you're a refugee and choose to return to Afghanistan rather than stay where you are, that's truly saying something.

[@DeezyThaDon]

Facts

[@danbrady9452]

Gotta less us know every 20 seconds, that it's Sofia Central Prison

[@pulakification]

Maybe the narrator has a gf named Sofia more on that later.

[@ricknmorty7732]

He was saying it again as I read this 🤣

[@Veronica-mp6tq]

Madagascar was by far the worse. Poor guy was there for 38 years and never saw a judge. I wish someone who help those people.

[@GamingPro-dn3us]

Me to

[@googyberg]

6:44 "They never turn their back on a loose prisoner. It would be foolish to turn your back on over 100 convicted felons" 6:59 Two guards approach and either look away or turn their back to the loose prisoner, as two more appear from around a corner

[@marissasue319]

LOL!

[@cbakotako2791]

27:39 the only thing you need to remember about this prison. That is the main reason punishment looks, feels and is enforced that way. Also Jock Palfreeman was actually guilty and he didn't spend 20 years in prison, he was released in the end of 2019.

[@dillingersam588]

excellent documentary

[@renegadethedestroyer]

You can’t tell people not to have hope. Hope is what keeps them going

[@satka94]

Survival of the fittest describes what is like being born and raised there. Growing up in enviroment like that you don't know it's bad until you leave and see how people from other parts of the world live like. There is good and bad as every place, but it's my home even tho I decided to look for success abroad, I'm proud of where I grew up and the life lessons I learned along the way.

[@airsofter2247]

29:34 "In the middle of a European capital, in Europe" 10/10 script writing haha

[@hilln8467]

17:12 Expect the worst.. Nvm.. this is a normal dorm..full of stuff and cat..

[@RamnunmawiaRalte]

Prison is not about physical toughness it's all about psychological toughness

[@englishgrammar4274]

Stunning!!!

[@prydainianspy4625]

Thanks for spreading important world news!

[@joeforte7829]

If you ask me all these guards deserve a raise and need to come to America and show our guards how to do it

[@kL-vs6wz]

Joe Forte why because they have no nuts at all and have to use their position to rough someone up? Laughable. People like you who think everyone even petty crime criminals should be beaten obviously are the biggest pussies in the world, you would have to be to have never broken a single law.

[@MartoG32]

This shit is a lie the guards let them do what they want for money so corrupt 95% of cops and guards

[@kayd4362]

Nobody asked you dipshit

[@joeforte7829]

@@kL-vs6wz whoa just cuz you got butt f****** in prison don't get mad at me about it get a real job you piece of s***

[@joeforte7829]

@@kayd4362 let me guess you're probably a minority in America one that's always got their hands out trying to get free s***

[@yourbro6864]

The commentary of this guy makes me watch all of these prisons 🤗

[@chfgirl2481]

He is a great guy. A very talented stage actor. We are “related” in a way……his brother is my brother-in-law, so we have known one another for a long time.

[@jeanette7403]

How am I supposed to get anything done when all I can do is watch these? 🤷‍♀️ I like it and I like it alot! 😁

[@karliann1]

These shows make me sooo grateful for the life I have albeit isn't perfect but I'm so glad I wasn't born into some of these other places

[@stefigachadimova7479]

Your glad your not a bad person

[@TheIzroda]

Palfreeman is a 100% murderer and Australia is lucky he's not walking their streets anymore. About 10 years ago during a night of partying in Sofia he just went to a guy waiting to cross a street and stabbed him in the back to death. It appeared he mistook him for someone he had a beef with in the club and simply decided to murder the guy. He could have done the same back in Australia. Edit: Palfreeman had actually stabbed a person back home in Australia in 2004.

[@dorianista]

what a bullshit you wrote. this group of bulgarian shineheads changed the version of what had happened with the police just to accuse and convict this australian.

[@cruisepaige]

Read some more. He might well be innocent

[@bobby3008bul]

@@cruisepaige Innocent for what? Murdering 20 years old boy? If he did that in the USA, he'll be on the death row or life in prison. He is lucky he did it in Bulgaria and our joke of justice system and got 20 years (and be out sooner) + leftist "human rights" organizations defending him and putting him in every documentary. Cause he is socialist Australian, if he was from Afghanistan nobody would give a fuck. What a joke.

[@TheIzroda]

Aaaand they just released him today. Unbelievable! Toughest prison guys, harshest penal system in the EU here... The psycho can now go back to his favorite hobby - stabbing people.

[@xxxBeautifulMonster]

I really appreciate the narrator saying sOfia and not sof I a. Most foreigners mispronounce the city's name.

[@dustinclouse6888]

Wont lie, I'm guilty of that 😂 we pronounce it like Sof I a here in the states

[@Pakmaon76]

Best documentry... 👍👍👍💪From malaysia🇲🇾

[@prakashgajjar7940]

Excellent thanks

[@Cv3T0m1R]

We don't have 100 million for a new modern prison, but we have several billion for 8 fighters. We don't have 500 million to buy fast and modern trains, but we do have one billion for two ships and a few tanks. Priorities.

[@ivanpetrov5258]

Цветомир Димитров за влаковете съм съгласен обаче за затворите не мога да се съглася не отиваш на ваканция хора които влизат там трябва да мизерстват

[@multiklamer]

Exactly!!

[@raduradu334]

Same in Romania

[@jeffhatmaker817]

Considering the possibility of revenge from the prison staff, the Australian prisoner has balls of steel for revealing the actual conditions in the prison.

[@LizardSkynyrd]

😂

[@aleratz]

I think Bulgarian guards do an awesome job. In other countries criminals are better treated than law abiding citizens

[@cindyanderson3987]

Seriously !! This is the dumbest comment !education is the key ..

[@mickyarams]

So what country is that? Plonker!

[@jacquesnisbet2541]

All prisons should be like this. No one forces you to commit crime. Criminals are people who have no respect for their victims rights, so they should have their rights removed. They should experience the terror their victims feel.

[@casperblackcat1975]

Losing you freedon is punishment enough If you are dehumised while locked up then you won't come out better for It..

[@otosonet6693]

Hamza will probably never smuggle drugs again. The objective has therefore been achieved.

[@H.EL-Othemany]

He didn't smuggle drugs ' what show have you been watching.? He's been smuggled into the country by smugglers. He's in jail for crossing the borders illegally.

[@Greenar88]

@@H.EL-Othemany Hamza is the "German", not the Afghani. He is a Turkish German, who was arrested for smuggling drugs.

[@JoseLopez-wo7so]

Nothing has been achieved because there's an endless supply of others who will smuggle them.

[@GamingPro-dn3us]

I watch all of these I appreciate not being locked up. 😎😁😁

[@mbalenhle2612]

Currently binging on all these for the second time. Yup, Madagascar still takes the cup.

[@elin_]

How can it be such an imbalance between rich and poor everywhere?! It's frustrating to see...

[@thewanderingartists]

Corruption

[@giftsvampen]

Gypsies are asocial creatures

[@ryanhampson673]

Afghanis wearing adidas track pants...I see eastern Europe is rubbing off on them.

[@hamsafarvlogs8718]

Adidas nike and puma is common in south asia like afgan india pakistan

[@haraldblotand5460]

They crossed the border illegally. Yet the narrator says they are innocent. I worked with an Afghani once, he said that his family members were mocking for being such a coward for leaving the country.

[@shade7648]

@Dorohedoro Noi why what do you mean? any source?

[@sofiad9775]

They dont belong to Europe,

[@nicoletorrance3786]

There is something crooked going on here. No camera access to some wards, guards talking secretly to inmates, probably threatening them not to say "too much". Damn.

[@kalatapie]

The foreigners receive royal treatment in comparison to the regular prisoners and the German guy was still scarred.. Imagine how hard that prison is on the locals.

[@MrFafcho]

Iam from Bulgaria :D why i find this video now :O Epic!!!

[@gobshite]

'Here in a European capital, in Europe' Hahahaha More on that later

[@sethj.7235]

Well yeah. Keep in mind that Bulgaria and Romania were the last to join the EU. They are still normal countries and do not treat prisoners as tourists but as they deserve. Just think. Maybe if Anders Breivik knew he'd be in such an environment instead of a three-star hotel, he would have thought before he killed so many people.

[@velebitskadegenija5404]

@@sethj.7235 keep in mind that Croatia is the last to join EU

[@valliagramm431]

I am Bulgarian and I understand the things that people in the prison say, only 20% of the things they translate are true. I am laughing so hard at this right now like LOL

[@dylanallen5653]

Wdym

[@Toven_WaveWatcherFi]

It's like this with every documentary from this channel lol all the dialogues are fiction

[@arttugrann6185]

Can you give a few examples? Our eyes don't lie though, and we could understand that English speaking prisoner quite clearly...

[@uragirimono6519]

@@arttugrann6185 she's bulgarian, dont listen to her. Bulgarians like to lie

[@stefigachadimova7479]

Моля аз не разбирам

[@shellcraigmiles5253]

The comments are making me wish i speak Bulgarian.

[@user-zv5ub5ib7l]

Welp

[@user-ft8ti7jd8m]

I can teach u. Im Bulgarian. But what Will u give me in exchange

[@shellcraigmiles5253]

@@user-ft8ti7jd8m absolutely nothing

[@user-ft8ti7jd8m]

Добре... We have a deal...

[@shellcraigmiles5253]

@@user-ft8ti7jd8m yay!!

[@sujangiri7406]

Lots of love from Nepal 🥰❤️❤️

[@PeachiiWubs]

"Like a tiger in a cage" "Like a caged animal" all of these shows reference bad conditions for inmates to how human treat other living creatures.

[@adirondackErin]

Well said!

[@aarons6935]

Just need to throw this out there, humans are animals by definition so it really is putting an animal into a cage 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@stefigachadimova7479]

Well that's prison what u now I'm bulgarian

[@ta-sheenalitchard3491]

The Australian most likely got the beat down after this...

[@2fat2carry34]

People that say its inhumane threatment clearly doesnt understant the world they live in. Prisons are supposed to make you regret every decision which lead you in there not to make your life better. How would you feel if your family murderer lives a happy hotel like lifestyle while you suffer from the loss instead of rotting in the cell and being actually punished for his crimes instead of being rewarded for them.

[@uragirimono6519]

googoogaaga that's what you sound like

[@powerquotes9492]

Nah! This prison is a paradise compared to those in the Philippines and Madagascar 😂. If you don't believe me, just watch the documentaries on such prisons.

[@JanYi2023]

8:00 the guy didn't say we are armed. He said we are militarized.

[@jescaakal7346]

I think am ready to go to prison now.... the way am addicted to this documentary 🙄🤦...... can't go a minute without watching them 😏

[@alexpoulter7229]

The amount of holes in this are hilarious. The freeman “Australian” isn’t Australian. He’s South African. Figure it out.

[@NGT4LIFE]

Yeah,I kept thinking to myself...why does that Australian sound South African...

[@arttugrann6185]

For an untrained ear those two can get mixed up easily..

[@ericanoel8495]

I can see why people are upset about the living conditions in the prisons but then again they are not there for singing to loud in the choir. Maybe if its bad enough they will think twice before committing another crime.

[@LordDelail]

I might be biased as being a local, but then again, If you are in a prison, humane treatment is the last thing the people out of that "Service" expect you to get. Ask the relatives of the people you killed, robbed or abused.

[@drsylvietourigny5428]

Clearly from the commander's anxiety at allowing the crew to visit the cell with an English-speaking inmate, the guards are much more brutal to the inmates than the other way around. While there are worse prisons, this emphasis on isolation and darkness and lack of heat create an immensely stressful environment, as evidenced by the behavioural manifestations among those who are not part of the elite!

[@victorsavov2073]

"the guards are much more brutal to the inmates than the other way around" What other way around - the inmates being brutal to tue guards? 😂 Jesus, what prison would it be then?

[@lesterine77]

Clearly. Except we don't know that. It's much more dramatic to think the guard was nervous to let them speak to an English speaking inmate. That "nervousness" could be grossly exaggerated or even manufactured. In not about to say the guards beat the inmates based on a 40 minute documentary. But clearly, you are right.

[@stefigachadimova7479]

Nooooooooooo dhat ap prisoners are prisoners they're bad people and they don't deserve ot

[@daysgonesequel]

In fayette county, Ohio was one the second oldest jail in the state, they just tore it down on July of 2021 after building a new one, it looked a lot nicer then this 100 year old prison even though the jail was over 140 years old

[@shingirayigomo5118]

I’m so late to the viewing! I watched a few prison episodes and due to the “Madagascar “ comments I ended up looking that episode up and watching it. All I can say is “DAMN Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!!!”

[@soulvoice5922]

Damn it, my first documentary to watch was abt the prison from madagascar, and now the rest of them are so boring(((

[@ggdoodie4021]

Same lol