5 Fascinating Facts About Prisons You Never Knew

Prison is not the type of place most people want to end up when they are grown up. At least, most people shouldn’t want to end up there, but with the likes of Orange is the New Black, some people probably have a glorified idea of what life behind bars is truly like. Thankfully, we’re here to help settle the fact that prison is actually a really, really bad place. Here are 5 fascinating facts about prison that you will barely believe.


5. Robert Lee Brock

Back in 1995, criminal Robert Lee Brock decided to sue himself in court while he was behind bars. He claimed he had let himself get drunk and commit various crimes, all of which led to his imprisonment. The court threw his case out.


4. Female Guards

One prisoner, who was spending his time at the Baltimore City Detention Center, ended up getting four female prison guards pregnant. Thanks to that, he made around $20,000 in smuggled items.


3. Television Rights

Some prisons have recently begun to realize that offering television to the inmates of their prison is actually a cheap way to keep them calm and bring about order instead of hiring brand new guards to train.


2. Ronnie Lee Gardner

Ronnie Lee Gardner, who was executed in 2010, once decided to break out the glass in the visitation room. He kicked out the lights, then had sex with a female visitor. Everyone else in the area cheered him on.


1. OD

An inmate in a California prison somehow managed to smuggle in three jumbo binder rings plus two boxes of staples inside of his own rectum. The other prisoners began calling him OD, or Office Depot.