Rikers Island: Trash Paradise

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Works Consulted for this video:
Environmental resource:
grist.org/justice/a-sinking-j...
Timeline and synopsis resource:
www.milrose.com/insights/the-...
Local News:
nypost.com/2017/04/04/how-rik...
Rikers Island- American Civil War:
www.correctionhistory.org/html...
Rikers Island- The Draft:
www.history.com/topics/americ....
History of a landfill:
www.correctionhistory.org/html....
New York Times- On inmate isolation: www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/ny...
Psychology Today- Solitary Confinement and the brain:
www.psychologytoday.com/us/bl...
Strip Searches:
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/ny...
Kidnapped Slaves:
archive.org/stream/reportofco...
Rikers Island Closing:
www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/ny...

[@geographicstravel]

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[@mmilller452]

DeBlassio s term ended in December

[@jiukumite]

Propoganda begins at 5:14, ends at 6:37.

[@bludowski]

Our current mayor is Eric Adams

[@Zoubirking-1970]

Geographics @ where you from in England

[@origamiswami2275]

In my youth I was an out-of-control idiot criminal (basically just a casualty of the War on Drugs) and managed to earn myself numerous visits to west coast jails and prisons. Then I moved to NYC (Astoria, Queens, near the bridge to Riker's, coincidentally) but hearing stories about Riker's from my brother-in-law who spent time there on a regular basis cured me of my criminal tendencies, thank God.

[@robertfrancis6967]

Lol same here except the opposite, never been to rikers just a few county jails in Upstate NY n a 6yr stretch in NY state prison where roughly 80% of inmates came out of the city and through Rikers. Not saying NYS DOCS is a non stop good time but it has its moments and it's more of what you make it you want fighting and violence you can have all you want ýou wanna kick back read a book and mind your business you can do that too. I currently live in Arizona on the border of San Bernardino County CA n one of the 1st people I hung with was a guy from work that was a skinhead and product of the CA prison system n stories I got from him made me want no part of CA or AZ prison system

[@Slayerrrrrr]

Lol nice to see another Astorian here

[@fullcircle8231]

@origamiswami2275 casualty of the war on drugs? How did that lead you down a path of criminality and drug use exactly?

[@richardpatton2502]

If you’re not an hardcore criminal going in…you’ll be one by the time you get out All the best to everyone

[@jwenting]

or you get Epsteined...

[@310percentage]

Only prison where no one gets paroled early for good behavior. They make it impossible

[@chaosmarklar]

Rikers is for sentences under 1 year only, becauseits a city jail, not a prison, the average sentence served on rikers is less than 4 months

[@curtstanfield324]

"Current Mayor Bill de Blasio" and "Currently dwindling crime rate" makes me believe this script was written a long time ago.

[@NYmomAdrienne3915]

Seriously, “current Mayor Adams” and “current crime surge” is Manhattan these days. Hey, makes my home value in Long Island triple so far

[@whitlatch1999]

the only crimes not decreasing are murders and assaults, everything else has been decreasing.

[@Eblis840]

@@NYmomAdrienne3915 ah yes, Long Island, Home of ingrained institutional racism. from red lining as to not allow mixing of ethnic minority communities in school districts or purchases of homes, too the infrastructure of the highway system itself not allowing tall buses as to deter anyone wanting to visit the beaches... Can't forget the rampent opioid and fentanyl overdoses(mainly white kids) aswell as MS-13 gang members seemingly infiltrating every crevice of that Island, it's almost as if the Italian mob is in bed with them... A toast to the high life! 🥂🍾 Only good thing to come out of that place in recent years is Tim Dillon...

[@izzyguy6158]

Yeah definitely not current, still a great video though.

[@sowhenthen]

@@NYmomAdrienne3915 great for you?

[@richardhoff1626]

I am in my Sixties. When I was in high school, they brought in prisoners from Rahway Prison in New Jersey to speak to students about staying out of jail. The program was called "Scared Straight." Guess what? Prison is not a place you want to go. If this is news to anyone, heaven help us.

[@SuperSchott]

How is anyone supposed to keep track of the 498 KZbin channels that Simon has?

[@RubyDoobieScoo]

I'm just waiting for his TopTenz Simon Whistler channels. I had hoped that was going to be his April Fools video. Maybe next year.

[@jonprior2355]

One does not simply keep track of Simon's channels.

[@NX-gw7wg]

Seems I find a new one every few days...

[@saulthechicanootaku]

I guess you can say he's basically KZbin Swiss Army Knife

[@papanoel3999]

498..i thought it was well over 500..lol.

[@bjkarana]

All I know is that on Law & Order, a mere suggestion of being sent to Riker's results in even the most stubborn witness fully cooperating with the detectives. ;-)

[@npierce14]

Right lol rikers scares the hell out of them but they still talk shit when they bring up sing sing they also get quiet when you bring up Attica

[@BluesBoy-ij2rb]

I worked on building a steam tunnel there in the early 90's , the garbage they dug through was loaded with medical waste all kinds of old blue, brown and clear antique medicine bottles were laying all over the ground, and yes big problem with methane gas leaking into the tunnel....................Erik

[@ghost_of_nyc6497]

Worked on the outside of riker’s electrical and inmates would yell some funny stuff at you and you couldn’t laugh. “Hey hey mr electrician, FU!” Ok strange compelling response I probably deserved it

[@pamelamays4186]

What goes on at Rikers Island, like "The Enforcers" would make an interesting Into The Shadows episode.

[@DivAgent556]

If you've played The Division, you know the Rikers don't mess around.

[@charleswarden291]

Years ago I read that none other than Winston Churchill said something to the effect of " If you want to see the worst shitheads a country has to offer, just sit in the parking lot of a prison at shift change."

[@linphillips8331]

Can confirm. I turned myself in to sit out traffic fines and witnessed that the guards were probably worse than the inmates, and they hold complete power over you. You're less than a sack of meat to them.

[@pammmmm]

🤣😂😆👍

[@dandylionsloth446]

Truth, they have a very high rate of domestic abuse, just like cops.

[@Magepure6749]

@William Robinson lol "Fox "News"" is still better than *Chinese News Network* or MSDNC, and you know it :^) Or you could just, you know, *stop watching ancient corporate propaganda altogether* like a normal modern human being ^.^

[@ek8710]

" If you want to see the worst shitheads a country has to offer, just sit in the parking lot of a prison at shift change." -Abraham lincoln Real quote

[@squid1661]

@18:10 For what it's worth, DeBlasio is no longer the mayor of New York (and wasn't when this video was posted). The current mayor, Eric Adams, is a former cop who sees mass imprisonment (and vegetarian diets) as the solution to all of NYC's problems. Rikers isn't going anywhere.

[@marvindebot3264]

Mass imprisonment IS NYC's problem , it's one of the causes of the crime rate.

[@karenlobosco6717]

Hart Island is the City's Potters Field where the indigent and unclaimed are buried.

[@andrepretorius4702]

Imagine having to build the walls that will eventually lock you in.

[@8alltime]

It gets a lot worse than this. Look up the first Russian gulags. Prisoners would freeze to death one after another until the building was large enough to incarcerate and keep warm the people who made them.

[@andrepretorius4702]

@@8alltime None of those are good!

[@audiooddities9982]

I've heard about Rikers for my whole life, through media, family etc, but I never knew the actual craziness of it..

[@Leprechaun-qv6mo]

Look up eastern state penitentiary in Philadelphia…. It was so f’d up there they made a horror video game in 2004 called The Suffering which took bits and pieces from rikers island, took the horrors that happened in philly and based the game off the coast of Baltimore…. Just goes to show how messed up Ny,Pa,md actually really is and was back in the day.

[@DerptyDerptyDUM]

I can only hear the word "RIKERS" in the voice of Detective Lennie Briscoe from Law & Order. DUN DUN

[@Hammerhead547]

You should tell the story of Canada's most feared and infamous jail: Toronto's Old Don Jail which operated for 140 years before being shut down in the 1990's. The jail was the site of a majority of the hangings carried out in canada and became locally famous for the large marble carving of father time with the words: "lose all hope ye who enter here" which hung over the inmate entrance. After the "old wing" was shut down in the early 80's many movies were filmed there including the 1990 Tom cruise hit Cocktail which was filmed in the main reception area of the old wing which was 2 floors below the old death row and gallows.

[@Replicaate]

I believe it was the site of the last execution in Canada as well.

[@pandorasbox4238]

Suggestion: Beirut, Lebanon It is an insanely old city that has been through a LOT of things in it's 3000+ year history. It was getting blown the hell up in the 80's, conquered by Agrippa, and a whole lot of other things.

[@TheMr.George]

My dad was a C.O. there from like 1985-2000 overnites doing intake at GMDC. Lots and lots of stories, still has all his old use of force reports

[@beefgoat80]

"You eyeballing me boy?" "No, my glasses broke and I can't see shit" Famous last words. He died of a "heart attack" at the ripe old age of 29.

[@thefryingdutchman8795]

I love waking up to a new a geographics video. Best way to start my day and brain!

[@Misria12-14]

My dad worked on rickers for 21 years!

[@jaytrace1006]

I guess the message here is don’t break the law, and end up in Rikers.

[@Dondokken1980s]

What if you can't afford child support and alimony to an evil exwife wife cause you lost your job or got injured. Courts still lock people there. It's a corrupted world we live in

[@dsnodgrass4843]

If only that worked for the rich.

[@jaytrace1006]

Yeah, they seem to get away with a lot.

[@multiyapples]

Rest In Peace to those that passed away.

[@lizc6393]

While I'll 2nd that sentiment, I feel that if there's an afterlife, it was probably a huge relief to leave that place.

[@richardhoff1626]

Yes, If only they had let others live in peace when they were on this earth.

[@evanb1470]

I bailed out my ex wife's "new" boyfriend so he wouldn't go to Rikers. I wouldn't let my worst enemy go there.

[@miked3502]

Having worked corrections for a few years adolescents come in with the mindset they were big men in juvie where respect for others is non existent

[@thatoneblackguy22]

My uncle did 20 years in rikers he had shank scars all over his body and would lose his shit if anyone approached him I often had to do his shopping cause he couldn’t have people standing behind him.

[@zo2dfarm923]

Besides the trash island, this is how prison is anywhere in the US. The worst part by far is the noise. Everyone is a rapper in prison, as you can imagine.

[@danielolguin6495]

I did 4 years a in maximum security federal prison and 3 years in a maximum security state prison. These places make you more ruthless and uncaring than anything else. And it's hard to turn off once you get out, I've been out 2 years now and I still struggle in public and trying to get back to normal

[@phily309]

I hear you brother.. keep the head up,my Last was 2 years got out in 2004 and haven't looked back,it can be done !!!!! best of luck for the future..

[@danielolguin6495]

@@phily309 yup, thanks man I appreciate you.missed too much of my son's life. We're good now and I got custody of him, a house, good job and all is well except my head. But I'm doing it. Last 7 months of parole and I'm straight. Had 3 years but final stretch is here, i aint looking back

[@phily309]

Gald to hear it brother,it's a tough road but if I can do it anyone can !! Missed out on my eldest girl growing up,still break's my heart but I've gotten a second chance with 2 small girls these days and bit by bit gaining a relationship with my eldest... You'll struggle my friend but remember.... what's normal, don't take on board what others think, look after those you love and those who love you, nothing else matters !!!!

[@danielolguin6495]

@@phily309 thanks man, I'll take all the advice I can get. Especially from someone who's been through it. The people i love are all that matters to me and I will take care of them the best I can.

[@lingeniero8122]

I'm an engineer working on the fire protection systems for the new jails. I gotta say the new ones are pretty nice! (As much as a jail can be nice I guess haha)

[@JM-qb2kd]

Ur hilarious.

[@lingeniero8122]

@@JM-qb2kd What I meant is that they have added lots of things to address mental health, physical activity, and are accounting for dietary needs of people. But still, jail is jail you know? It could be a 5 star hotel but you're still forced to stay there.

[@Eblis840]

One of the cool new facilities proposed as Simon mentioned in the video would be in Chinatown... Definitely not a conflict of interest considering the spike in hate crimes against Asians due to covid... Im a jaded, cynical New Yorker aswell so my Sense of humor is also warped, you aren't to blame for this shit show tho, you're just doing honest work, stay up brother.😎🤙

[@Eblis840]

@@thentil not to mention 3 star Michelin dining... "your Kool aid and warm bologna sandwich is now served monsieur, Bon appetit!"

[@garrettgoss2691]

@@lingeniero8122 exactly. You can have the nicest cells or make it hell, but the punishment is having to stay there without the ability to do most things without being watched or something similar

[@OJsLeftGlove]

"Current mayor, Bill DeBlasio" "Dwindling crime rate" My guy may have slightly outdated information...

[@staytuned2L337]

🤣☠️

[@anaryllis1240]

For the first time ever I gave him a dislike for those comments. Crime is the worst its been in NY in 30+ years.

[@joshrodgers9366]

Simon has no clue at all what’s going on in American politics right now. He’s so uninformed he probably thinks Biden isn’t so bad when even the idiots that put him in power are starting to claim he’s incompetent lol

[@squelchking4144]

@@anaryllis1240 thanks, joe.

[@TheItalianTrash]

If you're going to commit a felony, then I suggest planning ahead and doing it in one the various Scandinavian countries. The prisons offer all the modern amenities with the latest accommodations and even access to PlayStation 3s while being in a much calmer and safer atmosphere in order to properly "reform". They also feature some of the lowest recidivism rates in the world, but remember rooms are only available at a first come first serve basis so what are you waiting for?

[@chaosmarklar]

Rikers is not for felonies, it's a city jail and under a year sentences, average is under 4 months, felonies get sent to prison for years, not jail for a few months

[@TheItalianTrash]

@@chaosmarklar I am well aware that Rikers is a jail considering that I live in New York State. Rikers still ranks as more dangerous than the vast majority of maximum-security prisons.

[@chaosmarklar]

@GG Bianco that is mostly due to gangs, and they are separated from the general population, I've spent time there in the 80's, 90's and 2000's and honestly never had any problems, I've always gotten respect, and I'm not with any gang nor ever was, but who's gonna risk adding a month to their 3 month sentence by starting something

[@TheItalianTrash]

@@chaosmarklar Yup. I did 3 months in a backwoods county jail located in Catskill when I was punk ass 18-year-old in 1999. That was enough for me, and I got my act together and never went back.

[@justinsbeaver9010]

Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician, who is serving as the 110th mayor of New York City.

[@andrewbrinkworth1420]

I use KZbin premium and I love that I can put my phone down and just listen to his videos

[@chrissirvid5845]

Always interesting, informative and entertaining 👍 team 👍

[@MrGavski69]

I have watched Simon for a few years now over 10+ shows and I love them very well put together and researched , I find them very informative but most of all I love this guys voice so much so I now hear him notating my everyday life 🤣👍 please keep up the fantastic work X

[@BukkakeeNinja]

The spike in incidents was likely due to the removal of the ability to isolate offender punitively or for safety purposes..

[@promiscuous5761]

Thank you.

[@BCaldwell]

I think it's hilarious that Simon reported the crime level has dropped in NYC towards the end of the video.... Your timing is impeccable Sir 😂

[@BMWE90HQ]

Yeah I was thinking “that’s a bold face lie”.

[@duncancurtis1758]

CSI, naturally.

[@duncancurtis1758]

Law n order SVU.

[@BCaldwell]

Cue the Who music!!!

[@aaronx8006]

@@BMWE90HQ it isn’t ..crime was worst before so don’t kid yourself

[@jordanharris2879]

Rikers island isn’t a jail it’s a penitentiary. And Simon there is a difference

[@19eightyforeisnow]

No it's both simultaneously.

[@passat24666]

Go back to school and learn. Rikers is a island facility made up of 8 jails. A penitentiary are the prisons that are locate upstate like Sing Sing, Attica and Bedford. Jails are holding facility for non sentenced inmates until they can be sentenced to prison..

[@ZebraGirl97]

@@passat24666 or those sentenced to less than 1 year usually serve their sentences in jail rather than prison, as well.

[@passat24666]

@@ZebraGirl97 For NY state yes. Some other states have different rules. In NY any sentience that is giving for more than a Year and a Day you will be handed over to State department of corrections to serve your time from City department of corrections...

[@billsheehy1]

Dwindling crime rate? What planet are you living on

[@zch7491]

Wow this place is wild

[@redhotchilipapa5388]

I’d have to check your posts, Simon, but I wonder if you’ve ever covered North Brother island and the gross history within its borders.

[@tonyarc9455]

sounds good

[@QueenetBowie]

18:10 Bill DeBlasio is not the mayor of New York City currently, Eric Adams took office in January 2022, so those policies may change Secondly, you reference New York’s “dwindling crime rate” but New York has an increasing crime rate, it’s been increasing the last few years and overall crime is up 60% this year so far. It’s arguably one of the reasons Adams was elected (he’s a former NYPD officer) campaigning on a balanced criminal justice reform system. Rikers should be closed, but there were several errors at the end which kind of give a false view of the current situation in NYC.

[@BrontidexX]

This script is slightly dated, so you are correct!

[@chaosmarklar]

When I was in rikers in the early 80's it was over run with rats, in the 90's abandoned and ferel cats were brought to the island, their population is growing and the rodents are no longer an issue, plus cats around outside seem to have a calming affect on both inmates and guards

[@LMTDDS]

Seems like an interesting place! Should turn it into a tourist attraction!

[@maggiemae7539]

They turned Alcatraz into a tourist attraction. So maybe

[@giantman261]

America just likes to put their problems behind closed doors and out of the way, rather than fix them. Stop spending so much on the armed forces and put some of it towards helping the citizens of your country!

[@garretth8224]

Its a misappropriated or misallocated funds issue. Hell we spend more on healthcare than the military.

[@rustybottoms8859]

Crime rate in NYC was up 60% in March from what it was in 21'. They better keep that place open alittle longer or make the new jail houses bigger than planned.

[@hardlyquinn3747]

Perhaps you could do a video on Hart Island?

[@sciencerscientifico310]

Now if Rikers Island had been included on the show "Beyond Scared Straight" maybe many juveniles would think twice about committing crimes!

[@ladykoiwolfe]

Nice research even got the crackhead soup on there also known as prison crackers.

[@zata1197]

Sounds like one of the nicer parts of New York

[@pawprintz7166]

It'd be interesting to see a video about Hart Island.

[@MrDoYouKnowMe2211]

Trust the Awesomeness.

[@chaosmarklar]

In the 1980's rikers Island was infested with rats, in the 90's the city relocated stray cats on the island and in the 2000's there were thousands of cats, which the guards and inmates both liked, some are people friendly, and no rat problem

[@eaphantom9214]

Herd a lot about this hell hole ⛓️🏢 Another channel called - The Infographics show - covered it and it has been referred to a few times in films and series - Batman being 1 of them - called Black Gate

[@parkerlynne]

I only watch 3 genres of videos on KZbin. True Crime, Beauty, and Simon Whistler.

[@fancyultrafresh3264]

This…this is just Arkham isn’t it.

[@TheeRomantic]

Ppl complain about current prisons, complain the cost of new prisons, complain about being in jail (even though said criminals broke the law/s) and ppl complain when law enforcement are now softer on criminals cause ppl complained about the amount of ppl in prison. 😑

[@ladykoiwolfe]

One of my exes was sent there with a toothache. They wouldn't do anything gor it. For a week he was writhing in pain from this damn tooth. After he finally got moved on he got the tooth removed. But the pain from that tooth is pretty much all he remembers of his time there.

[@Eblis840]

Sounds like he had a good time compared to other fun summer camp stories I've heard...

[@Eblis840]

@@thentil yeah maybe he should've committed insurance fruad and went to federal prison like a white collar gentleman.

[@ladykoiwolfe]

@@thentil absolutely! I mean he was a bit of an asshat.

[@ladykoiwolfe]

@@Eblis840 he wishes he had the money to do that.

[@Author.Noelle.Alexandria]

@@thentil People awaiting trial get sent there as well. This includes innocent people who can’t afford private attorneys. Keep in mind that not everyone in jail is guilty, and even those who are should (usually) be treated humanely. (People who fuck with kids can rot and be tortured for all I care.) If the punishment for stealing a candy car was losing your hand, would you say, “Well, shouldn’t have stolen that candy car,” or would you be sane and calling for such overly severe punishment to be abolished? And do you want punishment (keep in mind most of those in jails and other facilities for several years OR LESS), which hardens people, or do you want them rehabilitated so that, when they get out, they’re less likely to reoffend?

[@ek8710]

"Dwindling crime rate" LMAO

[@MrDanChandler]

This barely scratches the surface on the chaos and corruption that is Riker Island. There are entire zones of the jail system that guards don’t enter because the inmates broke out and formed gangs. The “bullpens” are all well over capacity, with inmates sleeping shoulder to shoulder like slaves on trade ships. All this is covered in an article from the New York Times, which added that a recent incident where a bus was stolen and driven into a gate to break it open was a typical incident for a day on the island.

[@GrievousReborn]

How inmates controlling a section of the jail corruption that one sounds like chaos

[@bagaboiebailey]

I was about to say new mayor dude but people already beat me to it

[@usonumabeach300]

Angola! The one in Louisiana...

[@ihavediabetestoo]

Inmates aren’t “cavity searched”.

[@techfixr2012]

Hi Simon. I hope this helps your algorithm.

[@EnclaveOfficer1776]

“Dwindling crime rate” 😂😂😂

[@ChrisSeaB]

Oh my God. I grew up in Williamsport, PA and we always called Ramen "Crack head" soup. When we moved away no else ever called it that and I still haven't heard anyone else called it that. So I just figured it was a Williamsport thing never knew that it was called that in NYC also. 🤣🤣🤣

[@gregkamer3754]

I had to laugh at the "dwindling crime rate" comment. NYC is experiencing their worst crime rate in the last 50 years.

[@kalumprino8457]

Honestly laughed out loud at that part.

[@GrievousReborn]

Probably emboldened by the talks of defunding the police

[@Author.Noelle.Alexandria]

@@GrievousReborn Defunding the police isn’t about getting rid of police. You heard Simon mention the rate of 40% for inmates with mental health issues? Defunding the police means taking funds given to police to beat those people and to instead use that money to fund people trained to deal with mental illness. The police shouldn’t get money to deal with people they shouldn’t be dealing with in the first place, yet necessary vital services aren’t getting funded because the police keep getting it all.

[@jwenting]

yeah, it was dwindling until deBlasio took over and gutted the police and criminal justice system.

[@aaronx8006]

No it’s not lol 😂 stop with the lies

[@bomt6259]

I love you Simon!!

[@ggallinvevo84]

Please do a video on hart island, that threw me off lmao

[@darksoul479]

I've been there. Winter is a lot better than the summer.

[@thefryingdutchman8795]

It's shithole and we're never going back.

[@nicos.2414]

You’ve been in the Prison?

[@nicos.2414]

Got any stories to tell?

[@lizc6393]

I quite honestly and literally don't even want to think about it. Jesus dude I hope you're doing better now, I would imagine it would cause PTSD in a lot of people. Meanwhile there are good ol' boys in the comments kvetching about paying taxes to provide "fire suppression and air conditioning" to "these criminals." I'd rather spend time with you than them.

[@StonedGames]

Bing Bong!

[@ssherrierable]

ME-thane… I love that stuff 😂

[@davidripley2916]

So Jonathan Woss pwonounces it "Wikers" - wighto❕👀

[@RCast-sc6fy]

I’ve had 2 family members as CO’s on that island and even I’ve worked there. Yeah… it’s horrible

[@GrizzlyCompany]

"Dwindling crime rate" the biggest lie of all.

[@duncancurtis1758]

These are their stories Bong bong.

[@Cinnamon938]

I thought the same thing when I heard it.

[@aaronx8006]

Crime was worst before so he isn’t wrong

[@bishop51807]

Crime was going down pre covid, the public fear factor however...

[@BrontidexX]

This script is admittedly dated! Though the dwidling crime rate also has to do with certain crimes that are no longer considered crimes- such as marijuana possession. Additionally, the reactions to many petty crimes no longer include detainment while awaiting trial. You are not incorrect, just thought I would clarify!

[@redlee1139]

Check out McNeil island in Washington state its an interesting prison had a dairy farm at one point probably still does I only know about this place bc my grandfather ran the dairy farm

[@katrina3560]

Great suggestion!

[@MrWilberbeast1]

What’s the difference between a shiv and shank?

[@kylebailey7002]

There the same thing

[@spazzzy9917]

Who’s only here to figure out what they kept referring to in Law and Order SVU? XD

[@duncancurtis1758]

Bong bong.

[@TeamLegacyFTW]

Poor Gaia 😢

[@staytuned2L337]

Oscar the grouch's holiday villa

[@raymondwelsh6028]

The place looks to good for the likes of the guests. They deserve no better.🇦🇺

[@rb89509]

Poor babies.

[@chrisyanover1777]

San Quinten is another fascinating and violent jails in America that would be interesting to cover. Especially thr history with Johnny Cash.

[@pammmmm]

Wasn’t Johnny cash in Folsom prison?

[@twocvbloke]

Sounds like a lovely place for a long-term holiday for boris johnson... :P

[@Dathansmith91]

Any information on the music tracks that played during the video?

[@shellcraigmiles5253]

It's been so long since I've seen you, Simon! Hope all is well

[@CA-kp9lt]

random but could you cover "The Lost and Mysterious City of Biringan"? cant find a decent video about it online

[@yungharambe]

If anyone talk 2 bingo. Tellem his car got towed. He'll know what you're talkin about

[@LMTDDS]

Wasn't there an airliner that crashed on Rikers Island and the inmates actually helped in the rescue operation and gained some consideration of their sentence in the 1950's?

[@basedbigfoot]

Simons chest hair 10/10

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@pookispalaceoflove6518]

At least watch it first you fool

[@batticusmanacleas510]

Due primarily to mental illness, I got chewed up by the legal system and spent my 20s in and out of jails and prisons. Other than psychological pain involved, the hardest thing was always asshole psychopath guards. Drunk with power and driven by their own mental problems. Prisons don't attract the best people to work there. Not saying that there isn't good people who work in corrections. But there are a lot of sadistic scumbags that should be inmates themselves. I'm 40 now and still trying to fix all the damage brought on by a broken and biased system that most people don't care to see fixed. They broke the law, after all.

[@imnotracistbut-9559]

It’s insane that basically everyone knows what you’ve described is pretty spot-on and yet it keeps happening like it’s not something that needs to be addressed and ideally reorganized altogether but at the end of the day most people don’t really care enough. Stay positive and remember that you’re a lot tougher than you might often think

[@dnakatomiuk]

Yet in the UK they apparently get PlayStation's, TVs and all other stuff

[@Arc115YT]

To be honest, this isn't even the worst american jail I've ever heard of. When my brother was incarcerated, one of the jails he was kept at was made out of an old cargo ship. He compared it to a dungeon. There was no electric light, no climate control, no recreation, not even any corrections officers. Just concrete and metal and a tiny cell for him and dozens of other inmates. If there was an emergency, they had an intercom that they could use to call someone from a nearby facility. As for nourishment, they were fed beans twice a day. Some of the jails in the US have absolutely appallingly illegal conditions.

[@jackiereynolds2888]

As to what to do with trash is an ever present - inexorable question. The destination and treatment of garbage is NOT to be relegated or delegated to waste disposal services alone and then simply forgotten about. The public DOESN'T AND DOESN'T WANT TO participate in any way with the 'dispensation' of their garbage. BUT ! - I am really afraid that all of us will eventually be FORCED. Just why is it that truly communal problems, - instead of being relegated to, the responsibility of, and the solution provided by, - the community - it's always the State who always ends up doing the entire job. And beurocracy But the real solution to waste (not the temporary tossing about the respon- sibility) CANNOT BE the responsibility or the job of the resident trash-collecter ALONE. Without the attitude, the participation, and the involvement, the work, and the conscientiousness of the ENTIRE community, - the whole problem of all of our garbage CANNOT AND SIMPLY WILL-NOT EVER BE SOLVED OR EVEN EVER WILL BE SOLUABLE.

[@SkankHunt007]

Crime rate at an all time high and they decide to down size. LOL