The prison run by inmates and more incredible prison stories
Sunday Night takes cameras inside the most bizarre prison in the world in this exclusive story to air October 25.
It is a prison in the heart of South America, where guards are posted at the doors but the prisoners run the show inside.
Prisoners bring their families inside with them, cells are bought and sold like real estate and drugs are made and sold freely.
They also hand out corporal punishment — and a gruesome, public death awaits those who rape or molest children within the walls.
Watch the full story on Sunday Night October 25 at 7PM.
Escape from Alcatraz
Alcatraz prison authorities have long claimed that the two brothers who escaped prison never made it to land and drowned in the San Francisco bay.
But proof may have emerged that they survived and may still be alive today.
A photo was recently discovered showing the escaped brothers John and Clarence Anglin in Brazil in 1975, 13 years after their bizarre escape.
It was reported that the Anglin brothers tucked dummy heads into their bed sheets and left their cells through holes they crudely drilled through the walls.
Then, from the prison roof, they climbed over the fence to a raft built of inflated raincoats.
After a 17-year investigation, federal authorities concluded that the men most likely drowned during the escape
Escape by helicopter
John Killick and his Russian lover gained international notoriety while at large for 45 days in 1999 after Lucy Dudko hijacked a helicopter at gunpoint and flew him out of prison.
Lucy Dudko hired a three-seater helicopter for a joyride over the Sydney Olympic stadium that was being built near the prison, and did a test-run on March 17.
On March 25, the day of the escape, she pulled out a pistol and told the pilot Tim Joyce to head for Silverwater Prison.
In the interview, he reveals how they planned the escape during her visits to the prison and went on the run together, before eventually being caught.
Due to the conditions of his parole, Killick, 72, will not be allowed to make contact with Dudko until he is 80 after which time he says he might ask her out for a coffee.
Homophobic men wed in prison
Two murderers in jail for killing homosexual men staged what is believed to be the world’s first jailhouse gay marriage.
Mikhail Gallatinov married Marc Goodwin in a 15-minute ceremony at a prison near York in the United Kingdom in March 2015.
Gallatinov, 40, is serving a life sentence for the 1997 murder of 28-year-old Adrian Kaminsky and Goodwin, 31, is serving a life sentence for killing Malcolm Benfold, 57, in Blackpool in 2007 during a “gay bashing spree”.
The pair were married at a private ceremony in the visitors area of the Full Stutton Prison in East Yorkshire, in the presence of family members and prison staff.
Man mistakenly released from jail taunts police on Facebook
A machete-wielding robber in the UK taunted police with cheeky photographs after a prison accidentally released him just months into his nine-year sentence.
Just days after he was released in July this year, photos emerged showing 34-year-old Ryan Byrne smiling in front of a police van and drinking in a pub.
He has not been caught and in a recent statement, local police "continue to appeal for information to locate Ryan Byrne".
Escapee on the run recorded song with Sex Pistols
Byrne certainly had it easier than another notorious English criminal, Ronnie Biggs, of Great Train Robbery fame.
He spent years on the run living in Melbourne and Brazil before finally returning to the UK shortly before his death at age 84.
But he was equally as brazen. Biggs became a folk hero during his life on the lamb, at one stage even recording a song with infamous punk rockers, The Sex Pistols.
Innocent man released after 36 years prison
Michael Hanline spent half his life behind bars for a murder he did not commit, until DNA evidence cleared him amid suggestions prosecutors had withheld crucial evidence from his original trial.
Hanline was freed in November 2014 after a court over-turned his conviction for the murder of JT Garry and his sentence of life in prison without parole.
What did he do? Went straight to Carl’s Jr to try a burger like the ones "in the commercial”.
“My oh my, so that’s what meat tastes like, huh?” Hanline remarked.
The video of the 69-year-old’s first meal as a free man in 36 years has attracted more than one million views..
