How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works

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[@_xzvf2557]

This is the LockPickingLawyer and what I have for you today is this so-called “inescapable” prison.

[@sinecurve9999]

"Click out of one. Two is binding..."

[@yyny0]

Before I show you how I escaped this prison, let me first tell you a little bit about how it actually works.

[@techmad8204]

Even better cause he's a lawyer 😂

[@sealand9049]

Video length: 2minutes37seconds

[@snugglecity3500]

@@sealand9049 1:30 minutes is showing how it works and 30s promoting his tools.

[@TheDemocrab]

I can see an obvious design flaw: You simply starve yourself until you lose all depth and become a 2D shape, at which point you simply slide through the window and remain side-on to any guard towers until you work out your bearings.

[@dietznuts8106]

It doesn't even have to be the window! Being 2D, you can just clip through anywhere or hide inside walls. I think you're on to something...

[@someone7826]

You could also consume all the air inside the cell until the sub subpressure makes the concrete walls collapse. No need to use your fists as stated in the video.

[@richardmoore609]

I know you're joking, but if you do try to starve yourself they feed you through a tube.

[@TheDemocrab]

@@richardmoore609 Jokes on them, I'm extremely allergic to tubes.

[@CyanHour]

@@TheDemocrab they feed you anti-allergy-tube pills

[@richardolav]

When you’re Norwegian and hear “I had a holiday in Norway”. And I’m like “ah yes, I know where this is going”

[@mads_in_zero]

I only got it the moment he said "Halden Fengsel"

[@JL1009]

Let me guess... u read the title?

[@guganesan.ilavarasan]

I am an Indian and still knew it before he went in deep. Guess Halden has a reputable reputation worldwide. LOL

[@eurovision50]

I knew of the prison, but as a Swedish speaker, 'fengsel' was also a giveaway. :P

[@user400]

fortnite

[@Dekaku]

"Hello, this is the lockpicking lawyer, and today I am visiting a supermax prison. The guards are all very nice and challenged me to find a way out of it. Unbeknown to them, they already provided me with all the tools I need. As you can see, their steel handcuffs are in and of themselves very easy to pick, so to give myself a challenge, I picked them with this single shard of grass, one of the guards had under his boot. Now I have this long steel cable, which I can bend to make shims etc. However, I don't feel like picking the doors the usual way, as it is monday and I had a wild weekend with Miss lockpicking lawyer, so instead I will use this one design flaw from their camera system and the electric conductivity from the steel cable, in order to trip their system and open every electric door in the vicinity at the same time. Now all that is left is to pick this one last door, while the guards handle the prison riot, which just happened to be a Masterlock, so this one shard of grass should be enough. ... nothing on one ... click out of two ... three is binding ... the core seems to be moving, so I think pin four and five are probably zero cuts, back to one ... click out of one, and it is open. I must say, I expected a bit more out of a Supermax prison, although I assume that most normal lock pickers will have a bit of a problem with the camera system. Anyway, this has been the lockpicking lawyer, and I will see you next time."

[@Dilberito.]

-LockPickingLawyer, shortly after setting off 12 bombs in Central Park

[@isaacgraphics1416]

"now I'll just go back to my cell and do it one more time, to show it wasn't a fluke..."

[@isidoreaerys8745]

“Three is binding” 💀

[@DeezNuts-]

This comment is GOLD!!

[@chenoaholdstock3507]

This made me laugh out loud. Thank you.

[@LRM12o8]

Dang, this inescapable prison sounds a lot like torture. Just replace that window with artificial daylight that's always on, so that the inmates lose all sense of time and it'd literally be the basement of the Miniluv from 1984!

[@lazyryan3766]

For some mentally ill criminals with no chance of rehabilitation, taking away their ability to communicate an escape plan with others is a necessary step to protect the populace. Even if it drives them more insane, if the alternative in any way increases their physical ability to escape, we shouldn't risk it, at least not for some of the worst of the worst who murdered dozens of people.

[@samuelbaum1204]

Dont fret we do that in most prisons too

[@calculuslover2078]

Still less torture than prison rape.

[@psgamer-il2pt]

​@@calculuslover2078 is it?

[@jplayzow]

@@psgamer-il2pt I guess it depends on who the person is this is more mind rape the guards can't get close enough for physical rape

[@vtron9832]

I feel like this is something your slightly more professional twin from Wendover would cover.

[@vfnt]

Not a twin. Clone.

[@WowUrFcknHxC]

But a much less entertaining clone

[@pobbbb]

@@vfnt Who’s the original?

[@Naruedyoh]

I though Wendover was his cousin

[@1000man2]

@@pobbbb That is classified.

[@ernestoyaquello]

So, the secret ingredient was concrete... and psychological torture. Who would have thought?

[@JustcallmeJayrot]

The real prison was the friends we made along the way

[@Jehty_]

You forgot the weapons. Because after all it is still the US.

[@jezrielbaquir3237]

the ADX supermax is NOT a prison for common criminals,this place houses terrorists, mass murderers, and spies, the kind of people who are beyond rehab

[@wintermiller4845]

@@jezrielbaquir3237 It doesn't 'house' them, it tortures them.

[@Jehty_]

@@jezrielbaquir3237 Wikipedia: "The long-term goal is to keep them at USP ADX Florence for no more than three years and then to transfer them to a less restrictive prison to serve the remainder of their sentences." So according to Wiki ADX Florence is meant for rehabilitation. Even if that rehabilitation only means to be able to put them back into normal prison. That's still rehabilitation in a sense.

[@TheChristenberry]

Don't confuse the Supermax prison with the T.J. Max that's down the street

[@jimmysavile69]

Or the TK Max

[@backtothefifa1059]

Or the Supermac's restaurant chain in Ireland...

[@rosstaylor1039]

Easy to tell apart. Life at a TJ Max was declared cruel and unusual punishment by the Supreme Court in 2013.

[@NondescriptMammal]

they should rename it T.J. SuperMax

[@Cazgem]

I won't make that mistake twice!

[@ryanwhalen8469]

I’m a Southern Colorado local, and it’s crazy thinking that people like the Unibomber and El Chapo are just a couple counties over from me. One thing I’ve learned living here is that if a prisoner goes on a hunger strike they put them on a feeding tube, so you are basically there until nature takes its course. You also have a great view of the Rockies at the prison, and the second you walk in you will never see those mountains again.

[@Zorgdub]

The most impressive thing about Norwegian prisons is the that they have one of the lowest rate of repeat offender in the world. That's quite different from the US system which has the highest in the world.

[@mp40submachinegun81]

Its almost as if punishment without guidance doesn't work.

[@stevenichols2938]

They're not great at catching people.

[@littleredpony6868]

That’s the difference in the mindset between going to prison as your punishment and going to prison to be punished. The prisons in the United States are usually officially called correctional facilities, and I think they came up with their name to gloss over the fact that there’s very little correcting going on.

[@robot4jarvis836]

@internet person The information is relevant. If the overall rate is lower, this means that less crimes are committed. Therefore, there are less people imprisoned not because "they are bad catching people" but because there are less crimes.

[@MrEazyE357]

And that's exactly how the US wants it. Don't get me started. It's such a fucked up system and it literally makes me angry to think about.

[@jpro1733]

As a European my first thoughts where: 1. No way you just took a vacation in Norway. 2. That doesn't look like a resort in a forest. 3. I bet that's a prison.

[@Jehty_]

4. That's torture.

[@MrMessiah2013]

As an American my first thoughts were: 1. This is a video about prisons. 2. You already got the sponsor out of the way. 3. I bet that's a prison.

[@benghazi4216]

@@Jehty_ Yeah, that forth one really is the main point I think

[@Pyth110]

As a European, I'm glad you can read video titles for insight into what the video might be about.

[@jpro1733]

@@MrMessiah2013 makes sense. But I clicked on the video just because it's HAI and I didn't even pay attention to what it is about.

[@itchylol742]

Half as Interesting 110 years ago: How they made the Titanic unsinkable

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

It's a silent film you have to play in a projector.

[@cohengamertv6548]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 its partially lost due to a storage fire in 1967

[@jjbarajas5341]

(They didn't)

[@MrPLC999]

ANY prison is escapable **IF** you have inside help. And remember that everyone has their price. EVERYONE...

[@Penguinmanereikel]

Well, theoretically, it couldn’t been unsinkable if the front of the ship was bolted down mechanically instead of manually.

[@eustache_dauger]

"Secure, guarded neighborhood"

[@sanskaarkulkarni1036]

Gated*

[@pandemonium2536]

The 100% inescapable prison could also define a prison with a 100% mortality rate.

[@supe4701]

Well there is prisoner exchange and the fact that some people are occasionally not given a life sentence

[@jesus-ck4el]

It already exists and we're all in it

[@Jebastian_]

​@@jesus-ck4elare you 14

[@stevenorrington473]

That is called a death camp.

[@pandemonium2536]

@stevenorrington473 Yes but it does still have a 100% success rate at insuring nobody escapes. Results are results

[@notmenotme614]

I read about a world war 2 POW camp that was in Canada. Apparently it was a completely open prison, the German POWs could go into the local town or even hiking trips because the POW camp was literally in the middle of nowhere, several hundred miles from the nearest coastline. Then you’d have the width of the Atlantic to cross. Even if they wanted to escape it would have been practically impossible travelling such vast distances.

[@maxcomis698]

“Administrative” is about the scariest low-brow name for a prison

[@Ozymandias1]

The American government is good at thinking up euphemisms. "Enhanced interrogation" isn't torture and "collateral damage" isn't carpet bombing villages. But they really are.

[@lorcanoduibhir2692]

@@Ozymandias1 the entire middle East is listed as 'collateral damage' currently

[@taiwanluthiers]

"administrative" can include anything from MDC's (which are basically jails run by the BOP) to the ADX... it just means the facility holds a mix of inmates...

[@amp4105]

@@Ozymandias1 Its called double-speak

[@vazan7442]

that prison is literally torture

[@reTache4955]

Yeah, like most prisons in the US. They don't really care that much about rehabilitation xD

[@VVane01]

supposedly made for people that threaten a shit ton of people's lives so it makes sense

[@casperguo7177]

Capital punishment is nothing compared to life in there

[@flo090394]

You could expect nothing less from the richest shithole on this planet.

[@ThatOneGengar]

@@VVane01 Although all the people located inside are most likely really terrible, it does not excuse the fact that it is still torture.

[@siddartham1925]

America- Impossible to actually leave Norway- So good, they don't want to leave

[@operator2855]

You can literally murder 50 children and you still get to play fucking cod in up in a cell.

[@jakubpuchalski2583]

@@operator2855 yes and thats a good thing. 1) human rights 2) the main goal of prison is rehabilitation

[@ipadair7345]

@@operator2855 main goal of prison is rehabilitation back into society, not punishment which does nothing except making the prisoners more likely to commit crimes.

[@dddgaming885]

@@jakubpuchalski2583 There's a point where people ARE unable to be rehabilitated though. It gets thrown around a lot in discourse because, well, most prisoners ARE and if they can be, they should. But prison also serves as a punishment and housing for people who are 100% a threat to society. You think Anders Breivik can return to society? The guy who killed 77 people and injured hundreds more by himself?

[@NoNameAtAll2]

@@dddgaming885 why not?

[@Unknown_Ooh]

Actually the federal prison system also houses petty criminals too. Such as DUIs, domestic violence, thefts, etc on Indian reservations or other land that belongs to the government. These inmates populate the minimum camps or low facilities.

[@anonimato6705]

“The unpickable lock” “The unsinkable ship” “The inescapable prison” I’m beginning to see a pattern here

[@kyleolsen3600]

I’m just waiting for Wendover Productions to sponsor your videos.

[@johnladuke6475]

Nah, that guy hates HAI, they're like mortal enemies or something.

[@duaneorwasa9593]

he has, sometime back ;)

[@JatPhenshllem]

@@johnladuke6475 But that doesn't make sense

[@jdatlas4668]

Simple, by hiring private companies and adding occupancy clauses and as a result creating an incentive for mass incarceration… oh, you mean physically unescapable.

[@MohammedAli-pj1it]

Nearly all prisons are publicly owned and operated. The issue of private prisons is grossly overexagerated

[@jdatlas4668]

@@MohammedAli-pj1it it’s just one aspect though, and mass incarceration is a huge problem for many reasons beyond private prisons.

[@gezzuzzful]

These companies go out and convince people to commit crimes..

[@satisfiction]

@@gezzuzzful No. They make normal human behavior like smoking weed a crime.. then lock errbody up.

[@thiccityd9773]

@@MohammedAli-pj1it Having even one would be far too many. The amount we have would be enough to cause a revolution in a country with better people in it.

[@RafiNatapradja]

supermax prison does not scare me. I have a monopoly get out of jail free card.

[@knghtbrd]

That only works if your name has a letter in parentheses after it. Ideally if it's the same letter that's actually running the government right now. Otherwise you're screwed.

[@tanith117]

So that is actually one of the more common items confiscated in prison, they get tons of those sent through the mail.

[@dnsbrules_01]

You know it’s that inescapable when they let you know how it runs.

[@jeremywj]

Actually very little is known about how it operates. It surely has other security features they are not telling us. Very few pictures of the inside of the facility are available online. In fact, I think many this video used are not even from this prison.

[@HeldarGames]

@@jeremywj Its a crime to take pictures or video of a prison from inside (or outside) without permission from the wardens and in some cases the higher authorities from there. In my state, there is literally a dude who patrols the perimeter of the camp in a car, usually armed (or in my state always as far as i know) watching for both attempted escapes and unauthorized people scouting out the place out. And thats just from the state prisons I know of. Feds take this a tad more seriously is all aspects.

[@toastervan]

As a Norwegian, hearing you talk about Halden Fengsel as if it were a hotel was incredibly funny. Also, when you were talking about the room you stayed in, you were showing a visitation room (“Besøk” means visit)

[@nkl7345]

Is it for conjugal visits

[@SCIFIguy64]

European prisons are still prisons. Paris has a facility that’s on par with some of the worst in the US.

[@GameyCat]

@@SCIFIguy64*European water is still water. Paris has a water treatment facility that's on par with some of the worst in the US.*

[@Xnoob545]

​@@GameyCat Paris sucks though Its a bad city Europe has much better cities

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Fun fact: this is where Prison Mike served his sentence.

[@DavidAbyssal]

I wonder if that mess him up a lot...

[@ezioaltairac]

@@DavidAbyssal of course it did. They keep the Dementors there.

[@hectorg5809]

And he never got caught neither

[@REEEPROGRAM]

*_"Jail is just a room"_*

[@REEEPROGRAM]

Liechtenstein

[@blankblankpog]

"Age is just a number"

[@educacionespecialchannel3756]

In Norway it's a hotel

[@danielgstohl9993]

@@educacionespecialchannel3756 That's the popular depiction, but hotels generally allow you to *leave* 🙃

[@educacionespecialchannel3756]

@@danielgstohl9993 I never leave the house anyways it wouldn't be luch of a change

[@NickPoeschek]

I know that the people in that prison probably did some pretty heinous things, but I can only imagine what it must be like to live the rest of your life under those conditions.

[@ferretyluv]

You remember those cartel execution videos? El Chapo is the guy who ordered those. These people are far beyond “pretty heinous.” This is only for evil people.

[@Fish-bt4c]

​@luke5100 This kind of thing has a strong reason to exist and operate like this, because you're dealing with terrorists and such, yet it really shouldn't have that reason in the first place

[@MrEazyE357]

As far as federal prisons being reserved for people that commit "serious crimes", and old friend of mine is serving an 18 year sentence in a federal prison right now for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine (his sentence was so long because he was a drug addict and had 2 other nonviolent felonies on his record). This guy is the last person on earth that should be serving a long stretch in federal prison. Our justice system is a dumpster fire.

[@ferretyluv]

This prison isn’t for people like him. If you watched the fucking video, you would have seen it’s for actual terrorists and evil people. El Chapo and Ted Kaczynski aren’t low level drug dealers.

[@teopalafox]

should have tried to deal meth

[@arttukettunen5757]

"There was a flatscreen TV" "Turns up I was in a norwegian prison" Yeah, I understand mistaking a norwegian prison to a hotel room

[@kekerosberg1654]

Its humane, thats why people dont escape. People often say that arent people then more likely do crime? No, most people still value freedom and dont wanna spend 12 years in a motel-style room.

[@georgy2596]

I remember a quote “The punishment is removing your freedom.” This quote basically means that prison is supposed to be a place that simply restricts freedom. Not violate human rights

[@norbertfleck812]

Fun fact: Norwegian prisons have got a rehabilitation rate which the US system only can dream of. And the crime rate is one of the lowest on earth, though there isn't even a real life sentence. Even 1st degree murder is only around 7 years. Unless a psychological disorder is diagnosed.

[@Nazuiko]

@@norbertfleck812 Implying the US prison system wants rehabilitation lol. That defeats the purpose, its a perpetual business.

[@HenryLoenwind]

​@@kekerosberg1654It's not just that. In Europe, unless you are part of a crime organisation or plan to move to another continent, being on the run for the rest of your life is worse than serving your sentence. You can't get an ID card or passport for obvious reasons. This means you can't open a bank account, and using your old one would be foolish. Then renting a place to live is next to impossible because very few landlords accept cash, and in many European countries, landlords have to either register you with the state register or at least make sure you register yourself. You can't register a car, and when you drive one, you have no valid driver's licence. Oh, and you want phone or internet service? ID and/or bank account, please! Want to earn some money on the side legally? ID, SSN, and tax ID, please. Trying to circumvent that by having your spouse sign the paperwork? Guess where the police will be looking for you first. Oh, and one more thing for Norway: Want to buy some food? Good luck finding a place where they accept cash. Now, if you have the choice between that hassle for the next half-century and that American prison, sure, the hassle is worth it ten times over.

[@advisingbob]

Good to know that Norway has recognized HAI's Crimes Against Comedy. Me: *chuckles to self* Norwegian FBI: "FBI OPEN UP!" Me: "oh..."

[@thebronywiking]

*Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste (PST)

[@AdrianOkay]

@@thebronywiking polities ssksksksksksberberge

[@sundhaug92]

@@thebronywiking would be Kripos, maybe økokrim, not PST

[@zyansheep]

@@AdrianOkay _pewdiepie 2019 rewind flashbacks_

[@thebronywiking]

@@sundhaug92 Sökte på "SÄPO i Norge". Svårt att veta exakt vad ni håller på med där uppe. ;)

[@TOSkwar22]

This place is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The sheer level of damage that solitary confinement does to a person mentally is absurd, and they're completely isolated 23 hours a day, with a CHANCE of talking to others from a distance for less than ONE hour a day. It's... Honestly disgusting.

[@jdatlas4668]

Yeah, most of the world would consider this absolutely barbaric. The best part is this: quite a few cells are actually not filled with “the worst of the worst” but what they call “nuisance prisoners”, people who bother staff, file lawsuits and the like. They justify this by pointing at the high occupancy in other prisons, but it’s just one more reason this is sickening. At one point there was apparently a 16-year-old in there whose worst offence was stealing a car. Edit: That was I believe a state supermax prison and not this one but they’re basically identical.

[@Ry_TSG]

@@jbird4478 Well if you mail bombs to multiple people or reveal state secrets doing immense damage to the country i think it’s deserved.

[@farmertyler8087]

Well.. they’re terrorists and murderers and shit so. Just don’t be a terrorist or a murderer and you won’t have to go there, the people in there inarguably deserve to be there though

[@jdatlas4668]

@@farmertyler8087 they don’t through. According to ACLU research the state Supermaxes are often used to lock up “nuisance prisoners” (people who file lawsuits, annoy staff etc) when occupancy in other prisons is high enough they can get away with it. They’ve literally locked up a 16-year-old who’d done nothing more than steal a car in one of these prisons in Wisconsin.

[@sproge2142]

It's okay though cause "they deserve it" -incoming American commenters.

[@ivpt]

As a fan of Brutalism that furniture looks very good

[@harryeyre1322]

I was thinking the same

[@graciouscompetentdwarfrabbit]

I'm not sure if you're kidding (the furniture part makes it seem like it, but the first part isn't 100% clear), but in case you're not: Wtf, brutalist architecture is absolutely awful. If it was sarcasm, nvm my comment.

[@harryeyre1322]

@@graciouscompetentdwarfrabbit Brutalism looks great imo its just historically it was mostly cheaply done and diluted to just big ugly apartment blocks. When its done well i think it can look very cool and monolythic. As the name suggests a more brutal version of modernism.

[@a2e5]

@@graciouscompetentdwarfrabbit well-done brutalism are some buildings with absolutely cool shapes, made with concrete. this one is a joke i'm sure.

[@graciouscompetentdwarfrabbit]

@@harryeyre1322 I don't like modernist architecture either... It might look cool, but it's just not beautiful.

[@joermnyc]

Alcatraz was also “escape proof” until 3 guys got out and vanished. Sure the government claims they died in San Francisco Bay, but Mythbusters successfully repeated the attempt, so it was survivable if they knew how the currents worked.

[@Efflorescentey]

Coooooiiil!

[@novacorponline]

You know, I feel like the goal of "inescapable prison" can be achieved with some kind of middle grounds between "Literal hell that threatens to drive anyone mad" and "Literally better than not being in prison"

[@thomashajicek2747]

Just shows who how good normal living is in a country if that’s their idea of prison.

[@novacorponline]

@@thomashajicek2747 No, there is no way life is better outside the prison in that country; it would be unsustainable. it would require essentially that everyone in the country gets housing and food for free and can just do whatever they want whenever they want as they feel like. And quite obviously, such a thing is impossible. Someone has to produce the food and build the houses after all. we don't live in a world where robots can do all our farming and construction work for us.

[@thomashajicek2747]

@@novacorponline LOL they can't do whatever they want whenever they want. Its still prison. It's nice but not as nice as actual freedom.

[@novacorponline]

@@thomashajicek2747 Exercise reading comprehension please. I am describing what would be necessary to have life be better outside of the prison. You would need to have the benefits of the prison PLUS the freedom to do whatever you want.

[@thomashajicek2747]

But nobody gets to do whatever they want, whenever they want, so its a pointless comment.

[@Jay-qb9gi]

That’s where I’m at. My stunt double died and a time traveler from 1997 brought me there. I’ve been here for 24 years. Time travelers caught, tortured and killed other important historical figures here. I don’t know what they want for me.

[@justtheilluminativ282]

They want DNA to clone you and put your clone in a weird high school run by a principal who wants to build a crazy amusement park

[@JohanKylander]

Who let JFK use the computer!?

[@prime_optimus]

-100000 social credit score.

[@amp4105]

I did not ask John!

[@joshuacollins385]

I bet all that psychological torture makes these extremists much more reasonable, and knowing that the government does awful stuff like this doesn't at all inspire others to extreme points of view. On the bright side at least the people being tortured into ever deepening insanity all have multiple life sentences and will never be released, meaning this is just a human rights abuse instead of a public safety issue. Except a bunch of people have been moved from ADX Florence to less secure facilities, and a bunch have been released, or put into witness protection, or released and deported to other countries, so in some cases the government is putting people through 24 hour psychological abuse for decades on end, then releasing them. There's no way this could possibly go wrong. Every part of this video (including what I thought it was actually going to be about) makes me sad.

[@FatBoy42069]

It’s almost like death would be a preferable alternative.

[@joshuacollins385]

@@FatBoy42069 Death might be preferable to endless torture, but just not torturing people is also preferable to endless torture. None of this is necessary.

[@WickedMapping]

Prisoners do not have the same rights as free civilians. That is why slave labor is illegal except for prisoners.

[@joshuacollins385]

@@WickedMapping "Prisoners do not have the same rights as free civilians. That is why slave labor is illegal except for prisoners." I didn't say it was illegal, just that it was evil, indefensible, and counterproductive.

[@WickedMapping]

@@joshuacollins385 How so? Prisoners violated the rights of other, why should they not be treated likewise?

[@MyUsernamesThis]

100% inescapable until a bacon hair wearing a winning smile shows up...

[@governorrat8640]

amazing

[@frostbyte3978]

here before 1k likes

[@rcat777]

Amazing, correcting a checkmark. *Hare

[@vikingursigurdsson]

Begone checkmark

[@NanoCubeOG]

lol

[@trulsdirio]

I never understood why super secure prisons aren't just below surface bunkers. Like, you can have only one connection to the surface at one central location. Reached by a long tunnel away from any part that houses prisoners. Creating *the* ultimate bottle neck for any possible escape route. Open nothingness is one thing, literal stone walls in any direction as far as you want is another thing.

[@louielefou]

Early Roman's would use a converted, old cistern for that exact reason!

[@nishant54]

Because you need sunlight too fool.

[@BraindeadCRY]

Cost. Bunkers are expensive and US prisons are often profit motivated companies. The rest of the world considers constant solitary confinement in a concrete box a form of torture and thus designs prisons to be humane, also eliminating bunkers. It does sound pretty secure though, not gonna lie

[@ferretyluv]

If you watched Better Call Saul, you’d understand it’s very VERY expensive to build bunkers underground. It requires lots of blasting, lots of ventilation, and even more security and safety protections. Because if the elevators break or a fire breaks out, you’re stuck.

[@midiwall]

​@@louielefou- and often not bother to convert them...

[@Mynthio]

This sounds like the best bet you'd have of escaping is suing the US for psychological torture.

[@PK1312]

I was going to say, jesus, even for the worst criminals in society, man, this is no condition to keep a human being in

[@jdatlas4668]

Actually some of the people in state Supermaxes are there purely because they annoyed staff in other prisons by filling lawsuits. Because demanding your rights is now not allowed? US courts seem willing to defend this, at any rate, and the US is sort of immune from international sanctions and courts, sadly. Amnesty International has been denied access to these facilities since 2001… they know this isn’t okay, they just don’t care.

[@SCIFIguy64]

@@jdatlas4668 well that and stabbing officers. It's kinda difficult to arrange a lawyer when you try to harm anyone near you.

[@Amongus-in2wl]

@@PK1312 yeah they deserve the chair

[@MinnesotaExpat]

@@blank6604 They do. I know someone who works as a lawyer there.

[@aaaaa-mw4bi]

Solitary confinement is torture btw

[@jdatlas4668]

The EU has condemned it and refused to extradite multiple times on those grounds.

[@StratosTitan]

Yes this whole prison is basically torture in my eyes. I know it's easy on the internet to hate on criminals, but torture is a step too far for me.

[@SabertoothSeal]

That's okay it's only a human rights violation when other countries do it

[@jdatlas4668]

@@SabertoothSeal yeah, because the US just never agreed to the relevant treaties :P

[@operator2855]

@@jdatlas4668 "bUT thE eU" is the only point you have to stand on. Nobody cares if they want to extradite people or not.

[@angrykorokboi5434]

If they want to make a *100% Impossible* prison, then contact the people wasting hours of their lives doing it in Minecraft

[@asunflower7993]

it's not wasting they might get featured on Mythrodak

[@omnitroph1501]

Inescapable is a meaningless term now. We've been proven wrong so many times, and yet still we do not give up.

[@shootymcshootfacekoff7972]

@Opecuted no an inescapable prison is an incinerator

[@shootymcshootfacekoff7972]

That’s active

[@mp40submachinegun81]

@@shootymcshootfacekoff7972 ashes have to be cleaned out of an incinerator.

[@VulcanTrekkie45]

The upbeat tune of this video doesn't do much to distract from the pure and utter horror of this place.

[@trinhedman8854]

One of our teachers was a security gard at this prison for awile. He told some crazy stories. Afterwards he applied for a position as the dean of students at a school and they turned him down because he had no security background. Both the former position at the prison and his time in the special forces were clearly stated on his resume. Does no one read them?

[@nishant54]

They were blind as a fact.

[@SeriousApache]

"How do we make unescapable prison?" "Just make it so prisoners like to stay here"

[@Bloodlyshiva]

That makes people yell about soft on crime, though.

[@eavn9684]

That defeats the purpose of a prison then.

[@Banalisator]

For the inmates this may be more then just half as interesting.

[@skywalkergreen9012]

Bob Ross has Alizarin Crimson, Yellow Ochre, and Phthalo Green HAI has Woman Shrugging, Man Punching, and Hands Typing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I would totally watch "The Joy of Video Editing with Sam Denby"

[@technicalamanullah7019]

Fun fact : one of America's most inescapable prison is not in America rather in a enemy country. America is different 🙃

[@PatrickDavis28]

lemme guess, guantanamo bay

[@Speedster___]

Guat bay is actually owned by the US.

[@freddy04123]

No, it is in the United States of America, just not the contiguous United States. Guantanamo bay is owned by the US. We purchased in in a lease agreement from Cuba and have been faithful in paying even though Cuba doesn't cash the checks.

[@chrislanejones]

But the nice country of America did send a check for it to Cuba they just didn't cash it. They also waterboarding prisoners, but it's ok because most of them may have been terrorist.

[@Kihidokid]

@@Speedster___ owned by the u.s. but according to Cuba the u.s. is sort of trespassing. U.s. is paying rent for the land but Cuba refuses to acknowledge the payments. Also you can go visit there and there's a mcdonalds

[@mpad4497]

Didn’t know they caught the Hamburgaler. Glad he’s behind bars finally

[@alamp7640]

I used to live about 40 minutes away from this prison and past it everytime I was driving to the city. Certainly a weird feeling driving by it and at night it basically looked like day there.

[@Jombo1]

It would be nice if all insufferable contrarians on the internet get sent to supermax prisons, but unfortunately I'm not in a position of power to do that.

[@harryeyre1322]

Well technically you could be

[@-haclong2366]

Your profile picture shows that you're the King...

[@saberline152]

isn't this a huge infraction to the inmates human rights? yes even inmates are still humans who knew?

[@jdatlas4668]

The US sort of… doesn’t believe in that? The EU has condemned supermax prisons and refused to extradite if there’s a chance people will end up in one, fwiw.

[@KrishnaDasLessons]

@@jdatlas4668 Yeah didn't the US not sign something to still house supermax prisoners and child prisoners? But yeah I would like the country's supermax prisoners to be housed in a system like Norway's, since a lot of the prisoners in the supermax prison have mental health problems and they need actual help.

[@seco000]

@@KrishnaDasLessons I agree that they should be treated better, but a good chunk of those people their, are sane.

[@VVane01]

@@seco000 to be systematically dangerous enough to be in that prison you have to be sane

[@GaryDunion]

Shh you're not allowed to admit that prisoners are human beings.

[@vincegonzalez2171]

Man our prison system is so embarrassing.

[@playerscience]

Don't worry everyone knows about US's f**kin prison system.

[@antolak1590]

Lmao, like someone who murders 80 people deserves to have a luxurious life and be rehabilitated into society.

[@SCIFIguy64]

The secret is that they have medium and high level prisons in Europe that are similar to most US prisons. That is one prison made specially for life sentence offenders on an honor system of sorts.

[@tiresias3342]

@@SCIFIguy64 not in Norway they don't have life sentences, I'm pretty sure the longest sentence can be 10 years

[@TheLostfoundation]

@@tiresias3342 so you are saying if I intentionally kill 80 babies all I get is 10 years? That's a joke of a system

[@doggonemess1]

I just noticed something really funny - if you listen the the first HAI video and then jump forward through the series, the host's voice gets higher and faster very consistently.

[@leandervr]

It's amazing that nobody in the US government seems to think that it's curious other countries don't need prisons like this.

[@eavn9684]

Other countries don't have unabombers.

[@nabibbs7937]

Plot twist: he actually went into prison in Norway but he escaped and he's making This up

[@MikeKojoteStone]

In a Norwegian prison, you don't 'escape'. You ask nicely and they look you in the eyes deeply. If they see that you learned your lesson, they let you go. They almost never err. Which means, he'd be still there, because he's irredeemably shifty. Not even the location of the HAI Headquarters is disclosed. I mean, how more obvious could it be that he's a criminal mastermind with his organisation and tremendous wealth and power somehow being based on ... bricks.

[@l.zevicreations]

@@MikeKojoteStone perhaps THAT'S why he's so fascinated with bricks, he stares at them all day!

[@craazyy22]

You know why Norway's prison is actually good? It's because the prisons is built such no person would ever want to escape. Meanwhile other prisons are so horrible that everyone wants to do anything to try to get out.

[@gottimw]

They are escaping, but mostly poverty and into normal citizenship

[@jakubpuchalski2583]

Not really. Its because they actually xare about human rights and are actually focusing on the main goal of prisons - rehabilitation

[@jezrielbaquir3237]

of course you think that you bubbled up little man, your nation isnt constantly plagued with crime and drugs

[@Theiwillsurviveguy]

@@jakubpuchalski2583 the prisoners there aren't being rehabilitated. It's like living in paradise. Literally everything is provided for them and they live like upperclass citizens. When they get back to the real world and they start at the bottom of the ladder again and have to fend for themselves they will just reoffend to go back to paradise.

[@craazyy22]

@@Theiwillsurviveguy FYI they work in prison, normal jobs and stuff. The point is that life is supposed to be no less humane in prison than in real life. We got low crime rates for a reason.

[@TylerF]

That resort in Norway sounds incredible! 😂

[@daneaster3383]

This is what happens when a country actually treats its prisoners like people

[@Olivia-W]

@@daneaster3383 I know, right? It's almost like criminals are people, and some of them might actually go on to be productuve members of society if you give them the chance. But no, we gotta fund more wars.

[@matthewparker9276]

Australia built an inescapable prison. The only prisoner they every put in there escaped. In typical Australian fashion, he is now a local hero.

[@yumi456]

I saw a documentary about a Norwegian young "prison" and I was so surprised! Those kids go to a farm where there are about 10 other kids. They learn how to care for the animals, how to make products and sell them. How to cook and repair stuff and they also still get to learn what they would learn at school. They have all their own roomes and their stuff. They aren't forced to do anything. They have a few people working their that are their familys. They are not looked up! Those kids there get to have a loving family and learn all kids of skills. They are allowed to go to the market. At the end they learn how to live in society because that is often what they didn't learn at home. When their "sentence" is done, they get help finding a place to leave and a job. They also have people they can ask for help at any moment. When I saw that documentation, none of the kids that were there did something stupid. They all got a foot in life and developed to me great people.

[@josephcrews6423]

"The middle of nowhere in Colorado" - half of Colorado is the middle of nowhere

[@richdobbs6595]

Hey, that is better than Wyoming where 90 percent is in the middle of nowhere.

[@ollysza2833]

@@richdobbs6595 what the fuck is wyoming

[@littleredpony6868]

@@ollysza2833 Wyoming is the great wilderness in the western United States that fancies itself a state. About the only thing of interest there is Yellowstone

[@wildman2012]

Yeah, unless you're somewhere, everywhere else is mostly nowhere.

[@anshunayyar2391]

Inescapable prison exists Shiratori:- My time has come.

[@ZentaBon]

I get your reference fellow Kento Bento fan

[@anshunayyar2391]

@@ZentaBon 😄

[@CatMeowMeow]

How to make a prison inescapable: Step 1: Revoke all activities and movement

[@blackbrownblanco]

One time I got drunk and went to jail for stealing tropical fish from this hotel aquarium and violated my parole, but the public defendant got my sentence down to 20 days in jail and 271 hours of community service.

[@sangay9361]

This is really depressing. 23 hours a day in solitary will drive anyone criminally insane if they weren’t already before

[@FatBoy42069]

That just sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to the point where death would be a preferable alternative.

[@SeanGHOB]

That is awful. Extended solitary confinement like that is inhumane. I am too saddened by this to even use a sad-face emoji.

[@jdatlas4668]

It’s also almost universally condemned by the rest of the world. This is sickening.

[@operator2855]

😭 I shed no tears for anyone in a supermax. you "earn your stay" so to speak in those places

[@codenamelambda]

Punitive "justice" systems are fucked up enough as it is, but this is taking it to a whole new level...

[@jdatlas4668]

@@operator2855 you often don’t, especially in the state supermaxes.

[@dm2060]

@@operator2855 yaa sure, selling weed is a huge crime.

[@johnson941]

It's not about if you CAN escape, it's about if you WANT TO escape. Here, Scandinavia has the edge.

[@arctikf0x698]

TFW he says "in the middle of Colorado" and then basically zooms out of satellite view of MY HOUSE. This prison is a few miles from me!

[@heyguysiamasillyguy]

Mythrodak in 2040: "Ah yes, something to do while my clothes are at the dry cleaners."

[@vorokg618]

I remembered those inescapable prisons people build in minecraft

[@turtleninja4955]

the prison that works the best is... BEDROCK

[@liemduongthanh8386]

@@turtleninja4955 nah just perm chunk ban em

[@asunflower7993]

@@turtleninja4955 that's the easiest one to escape also the lamest if you're gonna trap someone in bedrock you're lame

[@applesyrupgaming]

@@asunflower7993 /tp repeating command block is truly inescapable

[@idkidk4334]

Yea they spent loads of time designing and building and there's like 69 ways to escape within a week

[@allisonhellman9538]

One correction: ADX Florence is in Florence, CO, which is actually incredibly close to Canon City, CO. This is hardly the middle of nowhere as it's a small city (by Colorado standards) with a sizeable population.

[@kevini4295]

Great presentation as always. Reluctantly I have given up believing anything is impossible, but I would concur escaping would be an extremely improbable.

[@luke_2078]

My friend’s grandfather is in this prison. He talks with him on the phone from time to time. Had no idea it was this brutal

[@TheDeadOfNight37]

What's he in for

[@luke_2078]

@@TheDeadOfNight37 family secrets trial

[@BacklTrack]

Florence seems more like a way to punish enemies of the state tbh

[@amp4105]

yeah but they use it to torture cyber crimes and whistleblowers... sad.

[@biscoito1r]

It seems like hell on earth. At least give them some books to read.

[@operator2855]

Nope

[@al_gengar]

@@operator2855 You're replying to every single comment that suggests that these supermax prisons are horrible to the human condition, with your own horrible take. Troll much?

[@erikburzinski8248]

@@al_gengar i dont think hes a troll I think he actually believes it.

[@jdatlas4668]

@@erikburzinski8248 and that’s somehow the most disturbing part.

[@gopet400]

Tbf if you get sent to a Supermax prison, you probably deserve it and the hell it brings to you.

[@Koniditors]

US: We spend millions of dollars on supermax security prison, with carefully designed cells to prevent prisoners to talk to eachother, look outside, or in other words never escape for the rest of their lives! Minecraft: BEDROCK

[@jdatlas4668]

Rest of the world: WTF is wrong with you, US?

[@DarjeelingEnjoyer]

@@jdatlas4668 Keeping away max-security prisoners shouldnt be a bad thing

[@jdatlas4668]

@@DarjeelingEnjoyer this isn’t about keeping them away. This is literal psychological torture. Much of the world has condemned this, and it’s a big reason the EU refuses to extradite certain people to the US. Nobody deserves this, and most of the world would consider it a massive human rights violation.

[@lordkekz4]

@@DarjeelingEnjoyer These conditions are inhumane and violate human rights. The first part of the video litterally showed how you can design a prison that is just as effective at keeping prisoners in but also doesn't torture them (solitary confinement is torture) and offers means of rehabilitation. Just putting people in isolated concrete cells like the US prison will make rehabilitation impossible and leads to mental illness (or makes mental illness worse).

[@operator2855]

Boo Hoo, if you landed yourself in a supermax you don't deserve anything less than what's coming

[@daniel-vr2pw]

At first i read the title as "How the US' prison system works" and my first thought was "But it doesnt..?"

[@anonymousdude7982]

Bruh, the most effective inescapable prison is just being in Nevada without transportation…

[@HectaSpyrit]

So they're just torturing people psychologically forever? And putting them in *litteral* bloddy cages? (This is somewhat ironic because when you're in a prison cell you're already sort of in a cage, but that picture of the recreational area with the chicken coop-looking cages is chilling) I mean it's litterally 23h of solitary confinement a day, this is torture, period.

[@IBo99608]

Oh no, terrorist get treated a bit harsh. How am i going to live the rest of my live knowing those poor souls have to go through with this?

[@HectaSpyrit]

@@IBo99608 "a bit harsh"

[@HectaSpyrit]

@@IBo99608 Idk go spend a holliday there and tell us how it went for you I don't think you realise that we're talking about lifelong torture. Whether they commited horrendous crimes is one thing, but saying that they deserve this kind of torment for it is another entirely. To me this is simply undefendably cruel and amoral, and ignoring it or trying to justify it is either equally cruel, or wilfull ignorance. I don't know how anyone can look at this and not only not be shocked, but take joy and pride in it. There's nothing to proud of here, this is an absolute bloody shame, "America, land of the free, defendor of human rights" ? Has there ever been a bigger more gross lie? This is not justice, this is just mindless sadism.

[@hectorg5809]

@@HectaSpyrit El Chapo escaped Mexican prisons twice. He is responsible for killing thousands of people. Would you like him to be spending the rest of his life at Club Med?

[@Maderr4]

@@IBo99608 killing them is more humane

[@agentofashcroft]

this prison sounds pretty inhumane

[@jdatlas4668]

Incredibly. Most of the world would consider this psychological torture and a huge human rights violation.

[@operator2855]

Almost like you are stripped of your rights when you commit federal crimes 🤔

[@jdatlas4668]

@@operator2855 you’re… not though. That’s not how human rights work.

[@jezrielbaquir3237]

the ADX supermax is NOT a prison for common criminals,this place houses terrorists, mass murderers, and spies, the kind of people who are beyond rehab

[@jdatlas4668]

@@jezrielbaquir3237 yes, you’ve copy pasted this at least twice now, that doesn’t make it more of a valid excuse or indeed true

[@gabrieldabriel]

Halden Fengsel is the most Norwegian thing I have ever heard

[@fuqupal]

It was built in 2010 and is the only prison in Norway that works like this so: NO!

[@burger9997]

@@notme1797 they are like this, this is the most maximum security you can get in Norway

[@ivanclark2275]

This is pretty much the most monstrous thing I've ever heard of.

[@massiveheadwoundharry6833]

Because you are sheltered.

[@fjb4932]

Ivan Clark, You pretty much do not know the monstrous crimes they are in for ...

[@JacobNintendoNerd99]

@Fugp Basis Said the Germans to the Jews before the you-know-what.

[@jonothandoeser]

The alternative is the gas chamber.

[@aolson1111]

@@JacobNintendoNerd99 You're extremely antisemitic equating Jews to pedophiles and terrorists.

[@LevenLappi]

I do believe people could break out of steel cuffs depending on it's thickness, but they'd be so hurt they wouldn't be able to get far, plus the second you break out anyways, even if your bones are intact, you'd be shot by the guards.. yep inescapable.

[@lightyagami77777]

"If you still think you're somehow built different and can punch through a concrete wall without anyone noticing" How did you know?

[@っっ-o6y]

We need "The logistics of inescapable prisons" oh wait wrong channel

[@dbaggins4478]

1:13 thought he was going to say Congress

[@asherstrell3247]

When he uploads on your lunch break💯💯

[@lord-sive]

"if you want to break out of prison you need a website and an email address" so true

[@erinmckeand6506]

The best thing about this is there is a pin for the HAI office in the middle of the desert on Google Maps, where it shows in the video.

[@9020Productions]

The room from the norwegian prison you show is not a cell, its a visitors room. the sign on the vall that says "besøk 1" means visitor 1

[@Chris-pt6hh]

I feel a little envious of their soundproof rooms.

[@L4wr3nc3810]

Hh right?

[@notmenotme614]

So true, having to hear my next door neighbour at 3am is more of a punishment. Sign me up for one of those sound proof rooms with no social interaction !

[@nabibbs7937]

2:54 I just learned that us like Alcatraz from cod so much they made it into the real thing, crazy

[@Fraccy]

I like how he just used this entire video to make a hover ad to explain how access to the outside world could get you broken out of a max security prison...

[@anotheraggieburneraccount]

That sounds... incredibly inhumane

[@wigglebot2368]

Wouldn't be too concerned about the humanity of the most dangerous terrorists

[@gamerforlife9865]

Guess my dreams of breaking into a prison is broken

[@johndoeanon445]

0:25 The sign on the door says "Visitation 1". So that's probably not a cell.

[@johnthegreek7356]

America: Treats prisoners like animals Prisoners: Act like animals America: Shocked Pikatsu face

[@Melissa0774]

I think this is where they want to put Luigi Mangione and that's specifically why they're charging him federally and charging him with terrorism, even though you'd think the murder charge alone, would be enough, if the victim was anyone else. They want to put him here so he'll be unable to write any books or have any contact with the media, because they're terrified that he's going to become the next Manson, if he is able to do all that kind of stuff.

[@carjac820]

That moment when executions starts to sound more ethical.