Top 5 Largest Prisons in the World by Tommy Dangeh on November 9th, 2011 Various justice systems have incarcerated millions of criminals across the world. As a result there are thousands of prisons spread across the nations. From the smallest country to the largest, every nation has a prison. The curious person might ask, what are the largest prisons? With a holding capacity of fourteen thousand, New York’s Rikers Island is considered one of the largest prisons in the world. Rikers Island is located on the East River between Manhattan and the Bronx. This prison has ten jails that hold local offenders who have a minor criminal offence and a sentence of less than one year. Although this prison never contains the full capacity of prisoners, with its twelve thousand inmates, it is one of the largest jails in the United States. In Los Angeles California, Twin Towers Correctional Facility takes a spot as one of the worlds’ largest prisons. This prison is not the largest because of its capacity but rather for its size. With the Twin Towers Correctional Facility’s 1.5 million square feet it is the biggest prison complex in the World. The largest woman’s prison is also located in California. Central California Women’s Facility is located in Chowchilla, and is the home of all of California’s female death row inmates. With a population of almost four thousand five hundred, there is no other female prison that can touch it. In the beautiful lands of India, Tihar Prisons is the largest complex of prisons in South Asia. Located in Tihar Village, Tihar Prisons hold twelve thousand inmates well past the maximum capacity of five thousand two hundred. This prison was originally a maximum security prison, but later turned into a standard containment facility. Silivri Penitentiaries Campus, in Silivri Turkey, is the largest high-security prison in the world. With almost sixteen thousand inmates, this prison is not only the largest in Turkey, but also in the world. As long as there are criminals in the world, there will be specially designed facilities to contain them, hopefully most people will never have a reason to stay in one of these facilities, or reason to visit any of the world’s largest prisons.
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