Historically Evil Prisons That Make Alcatraz Look Like A Five Star Hotel

Pitesti Prison

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Although the prison was not in function for very long (1949-1951), it really made those years count. It was a prison built in communist Romania and was notorious for its experiments and treatment of political prisoners.

There have been some recorded events involving prison guards forcing prisoner’s heads into buckets of human waste, prisoner-on-prisoner fights and mutilations. The “Pitesti Experiments” attempted to re-educate wealthy people like landowners and intellectuals through psychological torture.