History Quotes / HellholePrison

->There is a prison in a more ancient part of the world, a pit where men are thrown to suffer and die.
-->--'''Alfred Pennyworth''', ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''

->It stinks: shit, blood, puke. [[{{Squick}} Stuff is on the floor, on the walls]]. Snow comes under the doors in winter. The vents make this noise all the time, and there's something about it - you can't block it out. I used to stuff toilet paper in my ears to try to stop myself from hearing it. I thought it was going to drive me nuts. It's twenty-three-hour lockdown with one hour a day, five days a week, in the kennel. That's what we call the exercise yard: thing is six feet wide, thirty feet long. I should know, I measured it myself for five years. Lights are on twenty-four/seven. There's no [=TV=], no radio, just noise and white light. They don't even allow a man a toothbrush. They give you this useless fucking piece of plastic for your finger, but it's not worth a damn. [[TheToothHurts I lost five teeth in there]]. They just fell out. When you get right down to it, the Max is a form of psychological torture. You know why you're in there, but not what you can do to get out again. And that's not the worst of it. You fuck up badly enough and they send you to [[LockedUpAndLeftBehind the chair]].

-->--'''[[TheCaligula Joffrey Baratheon]],''' ''Series/GameOfThrones: History And Lore Of Westeros - The Red Keep''

-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Tzimisce (revised)''

-->--''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Paths Of The Damned - Forges Of Nuln''

->Unlike some of the slams I'd been to, Butcher Bay had a detached efficiency. It could contain the cons, but it could never control them. So inside the Bay walls was [[PrisonRiot chaos]], [[DespairEventHorizon desperation]], [[GoMadFromTheIsolation madness]], and death. The security turrets were a real crowd-pleaser - to everyone except the janitors.

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-->--'''The Little Sisters''' on Persephone Penal Colony, ''VideoGame/Bioshock2''

->''"Three skeletons dug up at an Arkansas penal farm in 1968 led to the uncovering of a monstrous system in which a prison hospital served as torture chamber and [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate a doctor]] as [[TortureTechnician chief tormentor]]."''
-->--'''Prison Legal News''', ''Volume 16'', p. 4

->''"[S]adism set the tone at Tucker. Men were beaten by wardens, by trusties, by one another. In the fields, [[ATasteOfTheLash whippings]] were regular and almost maniacally brutal. For overlooking some cucumbers he was supposed to pick, one inmate said he received [[DisproportionateRetribution 30 lashes on his bare buttocks]]. [...] Youthful inmates were beaten if they refused [[PrisonRape the advances of homosexual trusties]]. As punishment, or to force information from inmates, men were sometimes tortured with pliers, with hypodermic needles driven under fingernails and with the infamous "[[ElectricTorture Tucker Telephone]]" -- a battery-powered modification of a crank telephone with electrodes attached to the prisoners' toes and genitals. The device was put together by a former "inmate doctor" and usually administered in the prison hospital."''
-->--'''[[http://www.corpun.com/uspr6702.htm Down on the Farm]]''', ''Newsweek'' (20 February 1967)

->'''Jean Valjean''' ''[to the Bishop of Dignes]'':''"Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow passport. That is what it is like."''
-->--'''Literature/LesMiserables'''

->''"[[MenAreTheExpendableGender Male persons]] condemned to [[WorkingOnTheChainGang hard labour]] shall be employed in the most severe works; a cannon ball shall be chained to the feet of each such person; or the convicts shall be chained together two and two, whenever the kind of work in which they are employed will permit."''
-->--'''[[UsefulNotes/FrenchCourts 1810 French Penal Code]]''', ''article 15''

->'''First German:''' Oh Klaus! It's so good to see you again! How was it in the concentration camp?\\
'''Second German:''' Lovely. Breakfast in bed, our choice of coffee, tea, or hot cocoa, then sports, then a three course lunch. We had movies in the afternoon, and after dinner we milled around the courtyard with a smoke and a beer.\\
'''First German:''' Wow, I didn't know it was so nice. To think of the lies they spread about the places! When Mr. Meyer got out, he told me so many awful horror stories.\\
'''Second German:''' Mm. That's why he got sent back.
-->-- '''Popular joke in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany'''

-> ''"They don't need'' ''[[TheAlcatraz walls and water]]'' ''to keep the prisoners in [Azkaban], not when they're trapped inside their own heads,'' ''[[EmotionBomb incapable of a single cheerful thought.]]'' ''Most go mad within weeks.''"
-->-- '''Remus Lupin''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''

-->--'''Linus Wynter''', ''Airman''

->My first day on [[PenalColony the island]], I knew my life was over. I had reached the heart of darkness, a Stygian abyss, the supreme nexus of despair. I knew.
-->--'''Ranse Truman,''' ''VideoGame/TheSuffering''

->[[IronicNurseryTune In the House of Upside Down]]\\
Cellar's top floor, attic's ground\\
\\
In the House of Upside Down\\
[[DespairEventHorizon Laughing cries and smiles frown]]\\
\\
In the House of Upside Down\\
[[GoMadFromTheIsolation Found is lost]] and [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul lost is found]]...
-->--'''The Little Sisters''' on Persephone Penal Colony, ''VideoGame/Bioshock2''

->Thus, the Tzimisce still speak excitedly of ''Tmu Tarakan'', the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Kingdom of Cockroaches]], where prisoners [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty ate a diet of their fellow inmates]], slept [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses on beds of decaying corpses]], and drowned in a soup of their own entrails.
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Tzimisce (revised)''

->If you were sentenced to gaol, you did not go to an institution. No, [[DigYourOwnGrave you dug your own gaol]] with a spade provided to you by the Province of Maine. You dug it as wide and as deep as you could during the period between sunup and sundown. Then they gave you a couple of skins and a bucket, and [[BuriedAlive down you went]]. Once down, the gaoler would bar the top of your hole, throw down some grain or maybe a piece of maggoty meat once or twice a week, and maybe there would be a dipperful of barley soup on Sunday night. [[{{Squick}} You pissed in the bucket and you held up the same bucket for water when the gaoler came around at six in the morning]]. When it rained, you used the bucket to bail out your gaol-cell... unless, that is, you ''wanted'' to drown like a rat in a rainbarrel.
-->--''[[Literature/DifferentSeasons Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption]]'', on Maine's "prisons" in the early 1700s.

->Quite an accomplishment, someone building a triple-max slam in the belly of [[DeathWorld such a waste of a planet]]. No drop ship allowed within twenty kilometers. [[TheAlcatraz No escapes on record]]. The trick now is to try to stay alive. You're gonna have to try harder to get a jump on me. Mercs did it once, and [[WardensAreEvil these slam guards]] keep trying. What most call hell, I call home.
-->--'''Kyra''' on Crematoria, ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' ([[BonusMaterial DVD virtual guide]])

->Unlike some of the slams I'd been to, Butcher Bay had a detached efficiency. It could contain the cons, but it could never control them. So inside the Bay walls was [[PrisonRiot chaos]], [[DespairEventHorizon desperation]], [[GoMadFromTheIsolation madness]], and death. The security turrets were a real crowd pleaser - to everyone except the janitors.
-->--'''Riddick,''' ''VideoGame/EscapeFromButcherBay''

->''"I find you GUILTY and sentence you to [cardinal number] days in Southtown Correctional Facility! That may not be a 'long' time, but it will be HARD time! You'll be lucky if you survive..."''
-->--'''Judge''', ''VideoGame/HardTime''

-->--''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Paths Of The Damned - Forges Of Nuln''

-->'''Dude 1''': Dude, check it out! A prison.\\

-->--'''Music/{{Megadeth}}''', "Devil's Island"

-->--'''Judge''', ''VideoGame/HardTime''

-->--'''Riddick,''' ''VideoGame/EscapeFromButcherBay''

-->--'''[[TheCaligula Joffrey Baratheon]],''' ''Series/GameOfThrones: History And Lore Of Westeros - The Red Keep''

->Quite an accomplishment, someone building a triple-max slam in the belly of [[DeathWorld such a waste of a planet]]. No drop ship allowed within twenty kilometers. [[TheAlcatraz No escapes on record]]. The trick now is to try to stay alive. You're gonna have to try harder to get a jump on me. Mercs did it once, and [[WardensAreEvil these slam guards]] keep trying. What most call hell, I call home.
-->--'''Kyra''' on Crematoria, ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' ([[BonusMaterial DVD virtual guide]])

->Quite an accomplishment, someone building a triple-max slam in the belly of [[DeathWorld such a waste of a planet]]. No drop ship allowed within twenty kilometers. [[TheAlcatraz No escapes on record]]. The trick now is to try to stay alive. You're gonna have to try harder to get a jump on me. Mercs did it once, and these slam guards keep trying. What most call hell, I call home.

-->--''Wishbones,'' by Cherie Priest

-->--''[[Literature/DifferentSeasons Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption]]'', on Maine's "prisons" in the early 1700s.

-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Tzimisce (revised)''

-->--'''The Little Sisters''' on Persephone Penal Colony, ''VideoGame/Bioshock2''

-->--'''Bill''', on the Maine Supermax, ''[[Literature/CharlieParkerSeries The Unquiet]]''

-->--'''Ranse Truman,''' ''VideoGame/TheSuffering''

-->--'''Linus Wynter''', ''Airman''

-->--'''Linus Wynter''', ''Literature/Airman''

-->-- '''Remus Lupin''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''

-->-- '''Harry''', ''HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', about Azkaban

-->''"What was that place? That wasn't a prison, that was HELL!"''
-->-- '''Harry''', ''HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality''

-->''"Three skeletons dug up at an Arkansas penal farm in 1968 led to the uncovering of a monstrous system in which a prison hospital served as torture chamber and [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate a doctor]] as [[TortureTechnician chief tormentor]]."''

-->''"[S]adism set the tone at Tucker. Men were beaten by wardens, by trusties, by one another. In the fields, [[ATasteOfTheLash whippings]] were regular and almost maniacally brutal. For overlooking some cucumbers he was supposed to pick, one inmate said he received [[DisproportionateRetribution 30 lashes on his bare buttocks]]. [...] Youthful inmates were beaten if they refused [[PrisonRape the advances of homosexual trusties]]. As punishment, or to force information from inmates, men were sometimes tortured with pliers, with hypodermic needles driven under fingernails and with the infamous "[[ElectricTorture Tucker Telephone]]" -- a battery-powered modification of a crank telephone with electrodes attached to the prisoners' toes and genitals. The device was put together by a former "inmate doctor" and usually administered in the prison hospital."''

-->'''Jean Valjean''' ''[to the Bishop of Dignes]'':''"Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow passport. That is what it is like."''

-->''"[[MenAreTheExpendableGender Male persons]] condemned to [[WorkingOnTheChainGang hard labour]] shall be employed in the most severe works; a cannon ball shall be chained to the feet of each such person; or the convicts shall be chained together two and two, whenever the kind of work in which they are employed will permit."''

-->'''First German:''' Oh Klaus! It's so good to see you again! How was it in the concentration camp?\\

--> ''"They don't need'' ''[[TheAlcatraz walls and water]]'' ''to keep the prisoners in [Azkaban], not when they're trapped inside their own heads,'' ''[[EmotionBomb incapable of a single cheerful thought.]]'' ''Most go mad within weeks.''"

-->-- '''Popular joke in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany'''

->'''First German:''' Oh Klaus! It's so good to see you again! How was it in the concentration camp?\\

-->--'''[[UsefulNotes/FrenchCourts 1810 French Penal Code]]''', ''article 15''

->''"What was that place? That wasn't a prison, that was HELL!"''
-->-- '''Harry''', ''HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality''