World's most BRUTAL prisons: From Syrian hell-hole where inmates are kept in total darkness to Russia's K-6 Black Dolphin that no one has ever left
San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me', sang Johnny Cash to the cheers and cries of hundreds of inmates during his 1958 concert at the notorious US prison.
Built in 1852, California's oldest - and only - death row prison has housed some of the nation's most infamous serial killers from the 'Night Stalker' Richard Ramirez to the 'Freeway Killer' William Bonin. It was also home to 1960s cult leader Charles Manson.
In his song, Cash calls for the prison's imposing walls to fall, concluding, 'San Quentin, I hate every inch of you'.
But as brutal as 1950s San Quentin most certainly was, it might almost seem luxurious in comparison to some of today's toughest jails.
In Mexico, Brazil and El Salvador, where governments fight street battles with heavily-armed gangland armies, the justice system is as swift as it is uncaring
Gangsters are rounded-up and thrown together creating never-ending gang warfare within the concrete compounds .
Meanwhile, under the cold, authoritarian regime of Vladimir Putin's Russia, saying the wrong thing while locked up in Melekhovo prison could see you spending the rest of your days staring at a wall in the dark or much, much worse.
Brace yourself.... these are the world's top 10 most BRUTAL prisons
Last week, the world was shocked to see the conditions inside the new Terrorist Interment Centre in El Salvador - a sprawling purpose built jail filled with suspected gangsters as part of President Nayib Bukele's 'war' on crime.
Bukele announced that the first 2,000 members had been transferred to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT)' - which he claims is the largest mega-prison in the Americas - where 'they will live for decades, all mixed, unable to do any further harm to the population.'
It is designed to house 40,000 inmates in the most basic of conditions, with just 80 beds for every 100 men.
The jail consists of eight buildings made of reinforced concrete.
Each one has 32 cells of about 100 square meters (1,075 square feet), designed to hold 'more than 100' inmates.
Pictures emerging from the jail barefoot, tattooed men wearing only white boxers, bent over and with their hands behind their shaven heads.
They are stacked closely together, each sitting with his legs on either side of the man in front of them as armed guards in balaclavas look on.
In their cells they are left sitting on the floor before stacked metal beds with no mattresses visible.
The barbarity of the conditions has already been criticised by many, including former prisoner and host of Netflix's Inside the World's Toughest Prisons, Raphael Rowe.
He wrote in the Mail: 'This is a deliberate policy to control the inmates and manage them.
'I fear it will backfire badly — and result in violence even worse than the gang-driven chaos the government is desperately trying to stamp out
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