Here are some of the Infamous prisons of the World.
http://www.takepart.com/photos/worst-prisons-locked-up
Tag: crime
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Prisons Of The World,Photo Essay
La Sante Prison is home to international terrorist Carlos the Jackal and previously housed felled Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriega before he was extradited to Panama to stand trial for human rights violations. A study by France’s National Institute of Demographics and Prison Administration found that France had the highest prison suicide rate in the EU. The 23-hour-a-day lockdown and 100 degree in cell heat may contribute to why so many prisoners opt to end their lives at La Sante. 
Gldani Prison in the former Soviet republic of Georgia came under scrutiny when a video that surfaced on September 18, 2012, appeared to show the prison warden and a slew of guards repeatedly torturing and sexual assaulting multiple inmates (this link is NOT graphic). The guard responsible for leaking the videos, Vladimir Bedukadze, said he had witnessed similar atrocities occurring daily since 2005. Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaia has resigned amid the abuse scandal. The issue has become extremely political as Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is up for re-election on October 1 against the Georgian Dream party backed by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. (Photo: Vano Shlamov/Getty Images) 
Formerly known as Angola Prison, Louisiana State Penitentiary is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States, housing 5,108 prisoners. Angola is a farm prison where inmates work all year round and participate in an annual rodeo. The prison has been accused of imposing cruel and unusal degrees of punishment upon (among others) prisoners Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, who have been in solitary confinement for 40 years (a world record) after being convicted of murdering a prison guard in 1972, despite meager evidence. Photo: msppmoore/Creative Commons via Flickr 
San Quentin State Prison, Marin, California San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California, is a hotbed of prison gang activity and the sunshine state’s only death row for men. The Black Guerrilla Family was founded there in 1966 and the Aryan Brotherhood in 1967. Gangs are subdivided by race and region. Not being affiliated with a gang is dangerous, according to an MSNBC look inside the prison. Photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters 
Maricopa County Jail, Phoenix, Arizona Maricopa County Jail is spread out over a number of locations in the Phoenix area and run by famous Arizona Sheriff Joe Arapiao. In 2008 and 2010, U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake ruled that the conditions of the jail were unconstitutional. An extension of the jail, Tent City, is outdoors. The heat index has been measured as high as 165 degrees. All inmates are required to wear pink undergarments. Photo: Jean-Loup Sense/Getty Images 
Maracaibo Prison, Venezuela Maracaibo prison is in Venezuelan President’s Hugo Chavez’s home state of Sabaneta. It was opened in 1958 with capacity for 900 prisoners. Today the facility houses 2,400 inmates and has a swimming pool for its gang leaders. Maracaibo made news in 1994 when an uprising of Guariro Indians resulted in 54 injured and 106 dead. Media members who attempted to visit the prison had rocks thrown and shots fired at them by prisoners on the roof. Photo: Jorge Silva/Reuters 
In 1980, after a failed attempt on his life, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad had 500 to 800 inmates of Tadmor Prison massacred (clean up took two weeks). The prison was closed after Hafez al-Assad’s death in 2001. His son, current President Basshir al-Assad, re-opened Tadmor Prison on June 15, 2011. Syrian expatriate Doctor Bara Sarraj, an immunologist at Chicago’s Northwestern University, wrote From Tadmor to Harvard detailing his nine years in the prison, describing it as “constant humiliation, horrible beatings and hangings.” Currently, Syria is in a state of civil war, and Tadmor is open for undisclosed business. Photo: Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images 
Petak Island Prison, Russia In 2004 the Telegraph interviewed Valery and Oleg, cellmates at Petak Island Prison (number OE-256/5), located in the middle of a lake deep in remotest Russia. Petak is the most isolated prison in Russia. Both men had been convicted of brutal murders and, instead of life sentences, were sent to Petak Island to see if they would survive 25-year sentences. Prisoners spend 22 hours a day in cells with their cell mate and pace in an outdoor cage during their yard time. Parcels and visitors are allowed twice a year. Photo: Maxim Marmur/Getty Images 
ADX Florence, Colorado United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, is the federal government’s premier super-max prison. Inmates are held in their cells for 23 hours a day. They have no interaction with other prisoners and limited interaction with guards. Inmates never spend more than one hour of every 24 outdoors, and no natural light ever reaches their cells. The light deprivation is meant to mentally break inmates. In a 60 Minutes interview, former Warden Robert Hood described ADX Florence as, “A clean version of hell.” Photo: AFP/ Stringer 
Pelican Bay State Prison, California Pelican Bay State Prison is located at the Northwesternmost point of California in Crescent City. It is under fire for isolating prisoners in secure housing units (solitary confinement for misbehavers) giving them no more than a pinky sized hole of contact with the outside world for 23 hours a day. The lone hour in the exercise yard, a cement box with 20-foot tall walls, offers a view of the sky—through the bars. Prisoners have gone on hunger strikes to protest the conditions in the prisons. Photo: Stringer/Reuters 
AlCatraz Prison. 
Devils Island Cell,Papillon Fame 
Guantanamo Bay prison. -
Pharma Companies Fund Interpol! Accept Drug Cartel Funding
Pharmaceutical Companies fund Interpol, the International clearinghouse for Transnational Criminals.
Interpol has now joined hands with these companies to fight ‘Counterfeit Medicines‘
Pharmaceutical Companies are involved in Crimes themselves, like Testing of new Drugs on unsuspecting people especially in poor countries, including India.
Interpol I have posted on this.
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Drugs ,it is reported that , are not tested on children and are marketed.
The FDA is of the opinion that Clinical Trials of Drugs conducted on Children give off reliable results,especially the contra-indications.
I am reproducing a real instance quoted in The Scientist.
‘But the story of Paxil also illustrates the power of somewhat obscure laws that have saved children’s lives by changing the way drugmakers test their products”(http://ramanisblog.in/2012/03/07/clinical-testing-of-drugs-and-pharma-companies-patents/)
Or let’s take the Case of Union Carbide , which caused the death of people in Bhopal Gas Leak Tragedy in India and the CEO was let off and he was not extradited.
They are yet to pay equitable compensation to the maimed.
Or take the case of arbitrary price-fixing and stealing Locally Patented Medicines.
The Corporate Companies are transnational.
If they are involved in Crime like these how do you arrest them?
Do you believe that Interpol would chase them, now that they are funding Interpol?
Tomorrow Columbian Drug Cartel may contribute to Interpol for fighting Drug abuse?
Story:
LYON, France – Combating the global scourge of fake medicines which threatens the health of millions of people is the focus of a landmark agreement between INTERPOL and 29 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.
The three-year deal, worth EUR 4.5 million, will see the creation of INTERPOL’s Pharmaceutical Crime Programme to further build on the work of its Medical Product Counterfeiting and Pharmaceutical Crime (MPCPC) unit. This will enhance the law enforcement community’s response to pharmaceutical crime through stronger partnership development.
The programme will focus on the prevention of all types of pharmaceutical crime including branded and generic drug counterfeiting as well as the identification and dismantling of organized crime networks linked to this illegal activity, which generates millions in illicit profits every year.
“With no country, no drug, no medical product immune from counterfeiting, a global effort is needed to combat this threat which puts the lives of millions of people at risk every single day,” said INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble…
http://www.interpol.int/en/Internet/News-and-media/News-media-releases/2013/PR031
Generic Drugs Issue.
‘Counterfeit is essentially an intellectual property issue referring to falsely packaged products that violate trademarks, but it is not necessarily about the quality of the medicine. We use the word spurious to refer to drugs without active ingredients in it. Big pharma has been trying to confuse the two issues and have been trying to make counterfeit seem like a public health issue when it is not,” explained K Gopakumar legal advisor to Third World Network.
“Last month, there was a meeting in Vienna of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on “fraudulent medicines” which was pushed by multinational companies. Before that, there was the issue of the International Medical Product Anti-Counterfeit Task-force (IMPACT) when it came to the WHO and that was also an initiative launched by the multinationals. ThisInterpol effort seems to be along the same lines. We are very concerned about this move by multinationals to fund Interpol and we will surely be looking into it,” said Rajeev Kher, additional secretary in the department of commerce and India’s chief negotiator at the WTO. According to Kher, since CBI was a Interpol member, its officials and the home ministry participate in all activities of the Interpol it was a matter of concern.
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Surrendering Murderer Let Free By Police, Off Duty
In a bizarre incident,a suspected murderer who was at large, was allowed to go free, when he came to surrender because the Police station was closed and the Police were off duty!
A 45-year-old man wanted in connection with the 2011 killing of a gang leader in Malmö tried to turn himself in on Monday, only to be told that the local police station was closed.
He has been on the run since a warrant was issued for his arrest just days after the November 2011 killing of the 31-year-old leader of the Brödraskapet Wolfpack gang (‘The Wolfpack Brotherhood‘).
The suspected mobster was shot to death at a taxi depot in a Malmö industrial area and the 45-year-old, who had previously owned the taxi business, immediately came under suspicion.
But when the suspect finally showed up at a Malmö police station on Monday night to turn himself in after nearly 15 months at large, he was amazed by the response he received, the Sydsvenskan newspaper reported.
Upon ringing the bell on the door shortly after 6pm, he was informed that the police station was closed.
“Closed? I’m suspected of murder and a wanted man – you guys really want to get ahold of me,” he said into the intercom.
But instead of being let in to the station, he was instead directed to another police station. When he had made his way there, he was placed under arrest.
Swedish criminal justice expert Sven-Erik Alhem expressed his shock at how the Malmö police handled the wanted man’s attempt to turn himself in.
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Prostitution Raid…..Prosecutor Caught.
Some time back thee was a news item that an US Prosecutor was found to have been a Porn Actor!
The Stockholm Hotel where the Sting took place. ‘Now come the News from Sweden that a Prosecutor was caught in a Sex Sting operation in Sweden!.The chief prosecutor spent Monday evening with a female prostitute in a central Stockholm hotel. A police squad, however, had been tipped off and was waiting for him in the staircase outside the room.
Officers were surprised to learn of the man’s status while arresting him, as he was the prosecutor on duty to whom they should report the crime.
The man paid 1,500 kronor ($232) for the sex, according to the Expressen newspaper.
He had allegedly found the escort online, when “surfing around on his iPhone” during a train trip, during which he consumed half a bottle of wine and a beer.
“And then I did what I am suspected of – I went out into the staircase and the police arrested me there,” the prosecutor told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
He has confessed to the crime, and his family has been notified.
“My wife will leave me and my children think I have behaved like a pig. Even my friends think the same,” he told Expressen.
The man told Aftonbladet that in his experience as a prosecutor, he knew that the “stupidest thing” he could do was to lie.
http://www.thelocal.se/46422/20130226/#.US7FVaKLAs8
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12 Minutes Diamond Robbery In Belgium Airport Video
A daring army reminiscent of The Italian Job,The Great Diamond robbery was enacted at the Brussels Airport
It seems to have taken 12 Minutes!
Story:
watch BBC Video at BBC Link in the post.
Diamond Heist at Brussels .
Armed robbers have made off with a “gigantic” haul of diamonds after a rapid raid at Brussels Airport.
They broke through a fence on Monday evening and stole gems which could be worth 50m euros (£43m; $67m), as they were being loaded from a Brinks security van onto a Swiss-bound plane.
They escaped back through the same hole. Police later found a burned-out vehicle close to the airport.
Police are looking for eight men, a prosecutors’ spokeswoman said.
Caroline De Wolf, of the Antwerp World Diamond Centre, estimated the haul at 50m euros, saying: “What we are talking about is obviously a gigantic sum”.
AFP quoted an unnamed spokeswoman at the same Antwerp centre calling the robbery “one of the biggest” ever.
She said that the diamonds were “rough stones” being transported from Antwerp to Zurich.
Antwerp is the hub of the world diamond trade – about 150m euros’ worth of stones move in and out of the city every day, the spokeswoman added.
No shots
Brussels prosecutor’s spokeswoman Anja Bijnens said the thieves were masked and well armed, but no shots were fired and no-one was hurt in the raid.
They used two vehicles, the raid was over in a matter of minutes, and they made off into the night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21504112
Additional Information.
Gangsters dressed as police officers”
In the course of the morning further details of the heist emerged. At a news conference in Brussels public prosecutors told newsmen that the eight robbers had been kitted out in police uniforms. The gangsters trained their guns on several people during the heist.
The two black vehicles they were travelling in headed straight for the Swiss aircraft where security guards were stowing a valuable shipment in the hold.
The eight gangsters were dressed as police officers or were wearing clothes that closely resembled police uniforms. They travelled four per vehicle. Each vehicle was equipped with flashing police lights.
Guns were trained on the pilot, the co-pilot and a security guard. The gangsters were equipped with machine guns, but no shots were fired. None of the passengers were injured.
The gangsters proceeded to break open the doors leading to the hold. They stole at least 120 parcels. The stolen goods included a shipment of diamonds. Police are as yet refusing to put a value on this shipment.
The raid lasted no longer than 5 minutes. Prosecutors speak of a well-prepared and professional heist.
The gangsters had gained access to the airport by first making a hole in the fence between two containers.
Police recover burnt out delivery van
A delivery van that may have been used in the heist was recovered in Zellik (Flemish Brabant) in the course of the evening. Detectives are now examining the vehicle that was completely gutted by fire to determine whether it was used in the robbery and whether the robbers switched to a different vehicle in Zellik.
The stolen diamonds originated in Antwerp. Antwerp diamond sources value the shipment at 50 million dollars.
The Swiss airline has not yet responded to the robbery. It says that the police investigation is underway and that the company will await the outcome of the investigation before commenting.
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This is not the first occasion that a major shipment of diamonds has been stolen at Brussels Airport. In 2005 robbers got away with a large shipment of diamonds held by the couriers FedEx in the Brucargo freight section of the airport. In 2001 cash and securities were stolen from a Brink’s Ziegler money transport. Eighteen months earlier diamonds were stolen from a Lufthansa aircraft at Zaventem.
In 1995 securities were stolen from a Swissair aircraft that was ready for take-off, while in 1982 a security guard, Francis Zwarts, was attacked by gangsters wearing state police uniforms. The robbers got away with gold and jewelry. Francis Zwarts’s body was never found.”
http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/news/130219_heist
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