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Hellhole Prison

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Hellhole Prison	comment	Plenty of prisons simply content themselves with confining people, but some go the extra mile and actually try to break them. This sort of prison is an absolute hellhole â€” between the lack of food and proper clothing, the absence of light or sanitation, the sadistic guards, and the violently insane fellow prisoners, they hardly need the nasty-looking torture equipment they probably have scattered around. Sometimes, they won't bother with things like individual cells â€” prisoners will just be lowered into a big pit and left to fight each other for whatever scraps are thrown down. Expect the inmates to be treated like animals, and expect most of them to act like animals as well. Indeed, being thrown to the prisoners might be used as a punishment just like being thrown to the lions, and jailers in such places occasionally suffer Karmic Death that way too. Alternatively, especially in the future settings, the prison might not be a barbaric pit where only the strongest survive and where the guards turn a blind eye to the criminal control. Instead, it will be a Dystopian Panopticon where every action is monitored, any step out of line is equated with an attempt to escape and punished accordingly, and there is one, if not several, Mad Scientist(s) who regard the prisoners as nothing more than guinea pigs for their immoral experiments. Of course, the worst of prisons might well mix and match the elements outlined above, resulting in something like a Nazi concentration camp. Story-wise, this sort of prison will often get heroes thrown into it, so that the hero can demonstrate their inherent hero-ness by refusing to be defeated by the prison, often because they were either framed for the crime that got them sent there or because they are an enemy of the evil dictatorship that runs it. It may also serve to toughen them up for the next part of the plot (since pretty much any story with a prison as a setting involves a Great Escape as the plot). Other times, it will just serve as a Fate Worse than Death which the hero must fight to avoid. Those that went through it often decide that they are Never Going Back to Prison. A prison like this will often also be The Alcatraz or a Tailor-Made Prison, but those are defined by the difficulty of escape rather than the conditions â€” some of those prisons can actually be quite nice. If a prison is this cruel to child prisoners, see Juvenile Hell. Related to Bedlam House.
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Hellhole Prison / int_1215a23d	comment	While the Fortress of Meropide in the present-day in Genshin Impact is no longer this, thanks to the efforts of Duke Wriothesley, however, back before he took over, the prison used to be a hellhole for the prisoners under the previous administrator who is wholly corrupt and mistreated the prisoners so harshly that not even its guards are safe from him. The unused section, where Dougier used it as the Beret Society's true headquarters, is a more obvious example; it features traditional holding cells, hanging cages (with some being found partially submerged implying the use of torture), and manacles and hooks hanging on the ceiling used to suspend inmates in the air. The oppressive nature of the area is the likely reason why the current Duke, Wriothesley, decided to abandon it to make the fortress much more accommodating and welcoming to the inmates sent there.
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Hellhole Prison / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm the Birdcage is an inescapable prison whose only inhabitants are capes. There are no guards; supplies and new prisoners drop in on one-way elevators. As a result each cell block has a leader, typically the most intelligent or dangerous cape, and new prisoners either have to align with one of the leaders or end up dead. Of particular note is Teacher, who has effectively brainwashed every member of his block into loyal followers.
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Hellhole Prison / int_14318528	comment	When They See Us: Korey suffers from being friendless, beat up and isolated while in prison. He's the only one over eighteen when the boys are convicted, so they put him in an adult prison right away, while seems much worse. After he's transferred, he spends his time in solitary to protect him from other inmates. The one thing which relieves things is a kind guard who looks out for Korey as best he can.
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Hellhole Prison / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): Uvo consigns the women who oppose him to imprisonment in his walled in model cities, which he then tests nuclear weapons on.
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Hellhole Prison / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): Diana and Natasha are imprisoned and enslaved on a desert planet without enough oxygen in the atmosphere to be comfortable for a human, where food is questionable and served in a sloppy shared trough, and where the slave drivers are cruel and trying to work the prisoners to death.
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Hellhole Prison / int_1a5d1224	comment	Downplayed in The Mental State. The prison is strict and some of the rooms are dirty, but it is little more than to be expected. Zack eventually succeeds in reversing this and transforming the prison into what is essentially a proper community.
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Hellhole Prison / int_1a95cc49	comment	The Mexican prison that John Grady and his friend are thrown into in All the Pretty Horses.
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Hellhole Prison / int_1d9853f9	comment	Artemis Fowl has Howler's Peak, the most notorious and dangerous prison within Haven City. Get sent there and you can enjoy a stay in a cell filled with goblins who are capable of breathing fire and who are generally in a very mean mood. Mulch Diggums's stay in the prison is said to be his third time there, his first time having been a 164-year term.
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Hellhole Prison / int_1efe652b	comment	In Death Race and Death Race 2, Terminal Island is just a regular supermax. Sure, there's Death Race, but prisoners volunteer for that (well, in most cases). Kalahari Prison in Death Race 3 however, is in the middle of the desert and has stone age conditions. The heat alone is maddening, but the guards keep hyenas as guard dogs, and prisoners work backbreaking hours in a mine.
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Hellhole Prison / int_20336460	comment	Jagged Alliance 2: Tixa is a torture facility for political prisoners. Looking around will find blood covered shackles. The basement is even worse.
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Hellhole Prison / int_21bf1f01	comment	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has an infamous sequence where Blondie and Tuco are captured by Union soldiers and brought to a particularly nasty camp. What follows soon after is the brutal torture of Tuco by Angel Eyes and another soldier — okay, in this case they want information, but he openly admits that "the talking won't save you" (in other words, he tortured Tuco even further after he'd told him everything). To make matters worse, it's heavily implied that this is a normal occurrence in the camp, and most of the prisoners probably didn't even have information worth torturing them for. Fortunately, Blondie gets out of there quickly before anything can happen to him. To make it even more depressing, they're actually going entirely against regulations- the commandant actually does want the prisoners treated fairly, but he's powerless to stop them because he's dying from gangrene.
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Hellhole Prison / int_22126d33	comment	Andor: The Imperial prison that Cassian ends up in on the moon Narkina 5 is a hellish and soul-crushing place where the prisoners are kept in line with brutal electric torture and threats of death while being used as slave labor by the Empire to build parts for military vehicles. To give you an idea of how bad it is there, one prisoner is shown deliberately letting himself get electrocuted to death rather then stay inside any longer.
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Hellhole Prison / int_22147342	comment	John Diggle has to break his ex-wife out of one in Russia in the second season of Arrow. It's full of murderers and psychopaths, and that's just the guards.
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Hellhole Prison / int_222efbd1	comment	In the Dungeons & Dragons (1983) cartoon, Venger had the Prison of Agony, which was built over the crater of an active volcano. One of the big reasons it was escape-proof is because the winch to operate the drawbridge that was the only way in or out was so heavy, only the giant who guarded it could turn it. The giant actually wasn't a bad guy; Venger was blackmailing him by threatening to destroy his homeworld. (Apparently, he was in the same situation as the heroes. Naturally, when Venger sent the heroes to this awful place, the giant proved a valuable ally when they launched a mass-jailbreak and destroyed the whole facility.
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Hellhole Prison / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington has the prison planet Hades, more commonly called "Hell." The climate is dreadful, the native life inedible (but the local fauna haven't figured out that they can't eat people) and if the guards decide that one of the small prison camps spread around on its surface is getting too uppity, they just stop delivering food to it.
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Hellhole Prison / int_250f8f36	comment	Salt and Sanctuary: The Red Hall of Cages seems to consist almost entirely of cramped jail cells and horrible torture devices, including racks, flamethrowers and the infamous Tree of Men, where the prisoners are hanged from chains, left to wither. The staff is even worse, with guards that relish in torturing the prisoners, executioners that take their time, monstrous gaolers and the Red Lords occasionally stepping in to mangle prisoners with their wicked sickles. Or at least, it used to be this way; decades have passed, and in this island the prisoners and staff have all become undead, with their roles fading away into "a black milieu of pain" that leads them all to attack you with the same ferocity they reserved for each other. Including the Tree of Men itself, which as an inanimate object should not even have a will of its own, let alone a desire to make you specifically suffer. Presumably, the original Red Hall of Cages back in Askaria, of which this one is a mere copy, is still running in its usual, heretic-torturing manner, as this one seems to be the most recent of the island's "acquisitions".
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Hellhole Prison / int_25c8b97d	comment	The Escapist: The atmosphere is terrifying gloomy and claustrophobic, and the guards are dangerously apathetic, leaving total control of the prison to Rizza and Tony.
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Hellhole Prison / int_278df229	comment	The titular prison in Superjail! was designed to fit this trope. Not a day goes by without a thousand gallons of blood being spilled.
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Hellhole Prison / int_282cda37	comment	Prison Architect: As players are given the ability to build their own prison, one such prison can be achieved, though it can lead to massive consequences in-game. You won't get very far being a monster in a proper game - the actual game challenge is very much built to encourage a modern, clean, reform-oriented operation - but a sandbox setup presents plenty of options to neglect, buse, and murder. Food? Optional! Beds? Optional! Toilets? Optional! Turning off 'free fire' for the armed guards? Optional!
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Hellhole Prison / int_291e9857	comment	Dark Souls might call it "the Undead Asylum", but it's really this trope. It's a set of cages where those with the Undead Curse are thrown to spend the rest of their existences until they either die permanently or go Hollow, overseen by a massive demon.
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Hellhole Prison / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In Justice League Mister Miracle was raised on Apokalips by Granny Goodness, a New God whose main role is to torture and brainwash children into becoming suicidally loyal slave soldiers for Darkseid. Miracle, being originally from Apokalips' good counterpart New Genesis, didn't break under her normal methods, so she placed him in a Hellhole Prison known as the X-Pit, which combined this trope with a death trap and an isolation chamber. This also failed, and Miracle eventually escaped.
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Hellhole Prison / int_31a8701b	comment	The Flash has Iron Heights, a prison for metahuman criminals in Keystone City. Originally it was about as good as you can expect a maximum security facility for superpowered killers to be, but it was turned into this trope by an overzealous warden who had a pathological hate against metahuman criminals. Superpowered convicts are made to wear their costumes inside the prison, are kept locked up in the prisons sub-basement known as "the Pipeline", denied food and water, suffered constant beatings by the guards, and even kept a nuclear-powered villain imprisoned in a generator to power the prison.
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Hellhole Prison / int_33dd1d90	comment	Half-Life 2: Nova Prospekt. Prisoners are kept in metal sarcophagi until the surgery block is ready to turn them into Stalkers. That's not covering the chronic Antlion problem and the massive, sinister network of machine gun bunkers and searchlights along the coast leading to Nova Prospekt. That's the shiny new Combine-built wing; the original prison looks like it used to be (and depending on what the guards do for recreation, maybe still is) a more standard example of this trope.
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Hellhole Prison / int_346db4d5	comment	The main setting of The Suffering is Abbott State Penitentiary, a maximum-security complex situated on an island ten miles off the coast of Maryland. According to in-game lore, this is where the Maryland Department of Corrections carries out the majority of its executions; it also has the worst safety record of all the prisons in the Department, along with the highest homicide rate and the highest suicide rate. It's not hard to see why: along with harsh conditions, gang activity, abusive guards and rape, Carnate Island has a supernatural tendency to bring out the worst in people, resulting in inmates being left buried alive in rubble, corrections officers developing a fetish for the Gas Chamber, and wardens driven to hideous excesses of religious mania. And this was what the place was like before the earthquake! The second game introduces Eastern Baltimore Correctional Facility, a place only marginally better than Abbott - but only because it doesn't have executions or a corrupting influence. The officials are notoriously vicious around here, the most infamous being Warden Elroy: instituting a brutal regime of forced labor at the machine shop, he deliberately overlooked malfunctioning equipment and paved the way for an accident that resulted in an entire crew of inmates being incinerated. Any signs of unrest were put down by specially-hired Emergency Response Teams, resulting in the hospitalization or deaths of several inmates. And for any inmates who needed to be punished further, they were sent to solitary confinement - where they'd be kept in lightless soundproofed cells for six months at a time - usually resulting in madness and suicide. And once again, this was what the place was like before the monsters showed up.
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Hellhole Prison / int_355f992	comment	The Shawshank Redemption: After allegedly killing his wife along with her boyfriend after he catches her cheating on him, Andy Dufresne is sentenced to two life sentences at Shawshank, where he encounters a gang of prison rapists known as "The Sisters", the vicious leader of the prison guards Captain Hadley, and the corrupt warden Samuel Norton who wishes to use him to embezzle money. Fortunately, Andy manages to gradually improve Shawshank as the film goes on. The prison itself is a fairly mild example, especially compared to the era its set in, but the corrupt staff is definitely not.
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Hellhole Prison / int_373373c6	comment	Midnight Express. Never, ever, ever try to smuggle hash out of Turkey!
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Hellhole Prison / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): Uvo consigns the women who oppose him to imprisonment in his walled in model cities, which he then tests nuclear weapons on. Wonder Woman (1987): Diana and Natasha are imprisoned and enslaved on a desert planet without enough oxygen in the atmosphere to be comfortable for a human, where food is questionable and served in a sloppy shared trough, and where the slave drivers are cruel and trying to work the prisoners to death.
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Hellhole Prison / int_3a31dca0	comment	Furnace Penitentiary from Escape from Furnace is an underground hellhole where young offenders are sent. Aside from the rowdy inmates and the sadistic guards, it is also a place where prisoners are regularly taken from their cells and subjected to cruel experimentation.
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Hellhole Prison / int_3ae518ad	comment	The House of Particular Individuals in Idiocracy. Filthy and overcrowded conditions, inmates are fed slop poured in from a funnel, and large, overweight prisoners establish dominance by sitting on smaller ones. Fortunately for the hero, the guards are so stupid you can escape simply by telling them you're supposed to be getting out of prison.
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Hellhole Prison / int_3b34143f	comment	Azkaban in Harry Potter qualifies — it doesn't sound as scary on a physical level, but it's described as being emotional torture because of the Dementors being the guards, sucking all positive thoughts and emotions and forcing the inmates to endlessly relive their worst memories. One of the early signs that the Wizarding World isn't as nice as it might've looked from the beginning. Word of God says conditions improve post-series after the Dementors are removed. Then again by that time the system has improved and only real scoundrels and Death Eaters end up there so some readers may think that it is too good for them.
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Hellhole Prison / int_3ba81aa2	comment	Honey Prison in Toriko is where people who committed food related crimes are sentenced. Since this is a world where food is even more Serious Business than it is in real life, it's a pretty horrible place. The lightest punishment is having your sense of taste altered so you can't taste your favorite foods. In real life that would be cruel and unusual punishment. Harsher punishments include starvation, dehydration, or being fed nothing but poisonous dishes, culminating in being chopped up and fed to the local wildlife.
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Hellhole Prison / int_3bc91429	comment	Space prison "Thinktwice" in Doctor Who Magazine. Its population is kept docile through memory-wiping, which leaves them with no sense of identity to fuel any kind of resistance. The Warden enjoys acting like some kind of Family-Values Villain, but is transparently a sadist and control freak.
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Hellhole Prison / int_3e374b30	comment	"The Pit", the foreign prison in which Talia was born and raised in The Dark Knight Rises is a literal hole: a giant pit into which prisoners are thrown. What makes it especially terrible is that there aren't even any guards; the prisoners can walk out any time they want...if they can make it to the rim of the pit. But in all of known history, only one has ever managed it.
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Hellhole Prison / int_4378c3a7	comment	Dog the Bounty Hunter: In his biography Dwayne "Dog" Chapman talks about the Mexican prison he, his partner, and his son were thrown into while on the hunt for convicted millionaire rapist Andrew Luster. Apart from fearing that they would be killed as gringos in a Latino prison, the guards made things all the worse by throwing buckets of sugar water into each of their cells in order to attract an already insanely huge swarm of flies.
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Hellhole Prison / int_442535a4	comment	Novoland: Eagle Flag: As a child Ji Ye was imprisoned with his mother in the prison of Da Li Temple. While there he was tortured, almost drowned, and Forced to Watch as his mother was murdered. The iron mine. It's little more than scaffolding on the side of a sheer cliff. Prisoners are lowered on ropes and have to hammer away at the cliff-face. Some of them fall to their deaths and the guards couldn't care less.
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Hellhole Prison / int_44a080cd	comment	The titular prison in Incarceron. Making it worse is that it's a Genius Loci and fully aware of what it's doing to people.
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Hellhole Prison / int_457b671e	comment	Jack Bauer spent several years in a hellish Chinese prison between seasons of 24.
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Hellhole Prison / int_49ff762	comment	The top-secret UNIT prison that Toshiko was thrown into for life in her origin-story flashback in Torchwood.
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Hellhole Prison / int_502cbd09	comment	Luke Cage (2016): Seagate Penitentiary is run by the sadistic warden Albert Rackham. He and the guards have an underground fight ring where they make inmates fight each other to the death. They also do some super-shady experimentations on their inmates.
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Hellhole Prison / int_5223dd16	comment	Grim Dawn has the Steps of Torment, a prison complex built by the fallen kingdom of Arkovia. Each level deeper into the prison has a new name; Pain, Misery, Suffering, and in the deepest part, Anguish. This is where the Arkovians attempted to torture the secret to immortality out of arch-Necromancer Uroboruuk, and were given a flawed process that bound their spirits and let their bodies decay. In the present day the Steps are a Bonus Dungeon full of skeletal and spectral undead.
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Hellhole Prison / int_52cd1288	comment	The main prison fortress in Mungo City that Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov are brought to at one point in the Flash Gordon comic strips, is implied to be this with Prison Rape, at least of the female prisoners, appearing to be common place. Fortunately for Dale, Flash and a group of rebels manage to come to the rescue just in time before she is subjected to a Fate Worse than Death at the hands of the warden.
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Hellhole Prison / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Room 2426", Dr. Martin Decker is locked in a filthy, rat-infested cell and given very little food and water between torture sessions with Dr. Ostroff.
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Hellhole Prison / int_550ba959	comment	In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, TF141 breaks into one to kidnap the prisoner inside for information on Makarov. The entire gulag exists to punish one guy: Captain Price.
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Hellhole Prison / int_586fb554	comment	In The Greatest There Was or Ever Will Be, the world's most vile criminals (though that metric is rather subjective) are sent to DeadHeat Prison, a facility on the edge of a volcanic island in which all inmates are kept in solitary confinement continuously, and are forbidden to speak with anyone. The volcanism also blots out the sky, so that the prisoners never see the light of day. Everybody in Kanto knows that being sent there is a Fate Worse than Death, even if one is lucky enough not to receive a life sentence.
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Hellhole Prison / int_5bd0554b	comment	The Dungeon maps in Warcraft III feature charming little things like cages, torture racks and iron maidens, not to mention the skeletons that are still chained up on the wall...
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Hellhole Prison / int_5cd1aa89	comment	The Ministry of Love from Nineteen Eighty-Four is very much one of these. And that's before we get to see what goes on in Room 101.
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Hellhole Prison / int_60442134	comment	El Hoyo a.k.a. 'the Hole', the brutal Mexican prison where Benedict recruits his crew, and where he later winds up imprisoned himself in The Revengers.
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Hellhole Prison / int_64494e71	comment	Walker, Texas Ranger infiltrated one of these, where the prisoners were being used in some kind of Fight Club-esque tournament in which the other guards bet on who'd win, all run by the Dirty Cop warden.
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Hellhole Prison / int_67005ac3	comment	Koudelka's Nemeton Monastery had a stint as a prison before the events of the game. It's stated that thousands of people were tortured to death within its once holy walls. The complex not only housed criminals but also people that needed to disappear for the sake of those in power, the best example being Charlotte D'Lota, the illegitimate daughter of a queen and her lover who was sent to the monastery to cover up the scandal and was eventually executed on her 9th birthday. Charlotte's hostile ghost now roams the abandoned place fueled entirely by hatred. A scene has Koudelka channeling the restless spirits of the place to find an answer of what could have happened there. The result is truly bloodcurdling.
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Hellhole Prison / int_69ccce0e	comment	In It Can't Happen Here, the concentration camps created by the Windrip regime are hellish. Trianon was a filthy, crowded, miserable prison where guards tortured detainee with whippings and castor oil force-feeding.
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Hellhole Prison / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: The franchise has a lot of arenas that are meant to serve as dungeons or prisons, and they all qualify, many of them also serving as places where torture and executions are carried out. The Dead Pool and the Evil Tower are both used like this in Mortal Kombat 9 (the first one used to hold Sonya after she's taken prisoner and the second used to hold Kitana, with Sheeva acting as a jailer in both cases; Sonya sarcastically asks her, "What is it with you Shokan and underground cesspools?"). Goro's Lair is also used for this purpose, although, as its name implies, it's also Goro's lair. (He's not always home, but it's always where a Boss Battle involving him is fought. It's implied given his intro that being put there is akin to being sentenced to death by being eaten alive.) The worst is likely the Dark Prison from Mortal Kombat: Deception. The eight prisoners in the cells are randomly selected from the nonplayable characters in the Konquest Mode (it changes each time the arena appears) and if an opponent is knocked against a cell door, the occupant grabs and hold him or her for a chance for a free hit or combo. It also has a nasty Stage Fatality, with a spiked wall compressor that activates when the loser is knocked into it. One notable aversion is in X, where the cellblock the Earthrealm warriors are kept seems like an average jail. (Kotal Kahn clearly isn't the type of ruler his father is.)
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Hellhole Prison / int_6bf069b3	comment	Matthew Hawkwood: The prison hulks holding POWs from the Napoleonic Wars where Hawkwood goes under to break up an Underground Railroad in Rapscallion. Truth in Television.
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Hellhole Prison / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress: If the player wants it, then his Jails will be essentially this trope.
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Hellhole Prison / int_6c6852c8	comment	Yakuza 4 has Okinawa Penitentiary No. 2, which doesn't officially exist. It's where the worst of the worst yakuza are sent, and is full of corrupt guards who can beat inmates to death with impunity.
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Hellhole Prison / int_6d10ab0b	comment	The franchise has a lot of arenas that are meant to serve as dungeons or prisons, and they all qualify, many of them also serving as places where torture and executions are carried out. The Dead Pool and the Evil Tower are both used like this in Mortal Kombat 9 (the first one used to hold Sonya after she's taken prisoner and the second used to hold Kitana, with Sheeva acting as a jailer in both cases; Sonya sarcastically asks her, "What is it with you Shokan and underground cesspools?"). Goro's Lair is also used for this purpose, although, as its name implies, it's also Goro's lair. (He's not always home, but it's always where a Boss Battle involving him is fought. It's implied given his intro that being put there is akin to being sentenced to death by being eaten alive.) The worst is likely the Dark Prison from Mortal Kombat: Deception. The eight prisoners in the cells are randomly selected from the nonplayable characters in the Konquest Mode (it changes each time the arena appears) and if an opponent is knocked against a cell door, the occupant grabs and hold him or her for a chance for a free hit or combo. It also has a nasty Stage Fatality, with a spiked wall compressor that activates when the loser is knocked into it.
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Hellhole Prison / int_6fa2c385	comment	Max Payne 3 has the abandoned Imperial Palace Hotel. The level deals with the titular hero infiltrating the hotel and finding several imprisoned and beaten favela residents, that were rounded up by an overly aggressive SWAT Team who then sold off some of the captives to a paramilitary organization that profited from selling their organs on the black market. In a later level, Max infiltrates a police station run by the UFE; the conditions are filthy, and there's a cell with a hung prison that makes one wonder exactly how he died.
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Hellhole Prison / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1 had an episode where SG-1 found themselves in one. Taken to its logical extreme as its purpose is to simulate hell itself.
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Hellhole Prison / int_7291539d	comment	Batman: Arkham City: The eponymous city. It's a walled-off section of Gotham where the prisoners are just dumped into. Because of the collapse of both the original Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Penitentiary, both criminals and psychotic lunatics are thrown into it, no matter how minor their crimes may be (or simply if they protest too loudly or learn too much). Notably, the prison also includes a number of political prisoners who did nothing wrong other than either publicly disagreeing with leader Hugo Strange or know too much about the prison, rather than being in either of the prior facilities. The food drop-offs are scarce, the guards are abusive, and if you don't align yourself with a gang, you're probably going to be killed. Not that your chances of survival will improve much even then, considering the supervillains who run said gangs, to say nothing of Arkham City actually being built for the purpose of gathering all of Gotham's criminals in one place so that they can be exterminated en masse; the plot to secretly supply the gangs with weapons so that a mass break-out can be fabricated and used as an excuse for said massacre, along with simply not caring for the lives of those already doomed to slaughter, is what justifies the incredibly poor living conditions there. Oddly, if you choose the wrong option in the final Catwoman section, it's revealed that even without Batman stopping it, the extermination plan is a brutal failure, with a cured Joker leading a mass armed escape and putting Gotham to the torch.
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Hellhole Prison / int_72de4d65	comment	Flitwith Prison serves as this in Barber Black Sheep, as exemplified by the death of one of the prisoners in a giant wheel and the other numerous traumas Oliver experiences throughout the flashback chapters to his stay there.
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Hellhole Prison / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Cardassian prisons are frequently described as this. Usually, the remarks are relatively vague on the specifics, but in "Duet", Kira describes the conditions at one labor camp in graphic detail. What's worse, it's heavily implied that even this description, graphic as it is, is nowhere near the full extent of the horrors that took place. It's no wonder that the prefect of the camp was one of the most hated Cardassians on Bajor. The episode "Hard Time" has an interesting example. O'Brien is thrown into a simulated prison cell for what he thinks is twenty years. While O'Brien is never "physically" harmed, the treatment inside the simulation is between "horrific" and "execution would've been kinder". The floor is sand, the rations are handed out irregularly, a painful laser cleans the room, O'Brien is beaten by the guard, and by one throwaway line, we know there aren't any "bathrooms facilities". It's no wonder the man is barely clinging to sanity.
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Hellhole Prison / int_74603f32	comment	Arcane: Stillwater Hold is the sort of place one can be dumped into without any criminal charges and locked away for years without anybody caring. Vi is implied to have been beaten by the warden himself countless times, which she treats as normal. Oh and the food is disgusting.
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Hellhole Prison / int_75149ccd	comment	Ysanne Isard's Lusankya has a facility to torture and brainwash people into Manchurian Agents, but there's also a prison where she sends them to recover along with all her other prisoners. It's relatively mild as evil prisons go, but they get rockbreaking duty and the guards regularly shoot new prisoners to cow them. They shoot on stun settings, yes, but that's not exactly pleasant. Worth noting is that Michael Stackpole named it the Lusankya in order to evoke memories of the real-world Lubyanka prison.
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Hellhole Prison / int_7559ae0b	comment	In Dune, the entire planet of Salusa Secundus functions as a hell-world prison for Emperor Shaddam IV; and it is described as having a 60% mortality rate for new prisoners. The emperor recruits those tough enough to survive it for his uber-elite and highly feared Sardaukar troops. The Fremen also view Arrakis like this on a more religious level — "God created Arrakis to train the Faithful" — and conditions are similarly harsh.
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Hellhole Prison / int_75c31694	comment	The A-Team: The prison in "Pros and Cons." The warden encourages fighting in order to scout out candidates for the fight program. Those that do good enough are separated, trained, and forced to fight to death. Even for prisoners who can't fight it doesn't seem to be a great place. It's not a very safe prison (thanks to the aforementioned "encouraged fighting") plus the warden apparently thinks letting the prisoners get their hair cut is "coddling."
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Hellhole Prison / int_764be44b	comment	Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes: Despite its relatively mundane appearance, Camp Omega, an Expy of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base's Camp Delta, is far more sinister than it appears. It's rife with prisoners locked in animal cages, land mines, summary executions, and heavily armed US Marine corps guards, and Skull Face's presence and methods only make things worse. Even the Marines find him disturbing.
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Hellhole Prison / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2: Zaeed Massani states that Batarian prisons are hellholes where the only choices are "bash head open against wall" or "kill everyone between yourself and exit". The Purgatory prison ship is a mercenary-run Protection Racket, which governments only tacitly recognize, much less held to any humanitarian standards. Needless to say, the inmates suffer terrible living conditions and abuse from guards. It's hard not to feel bad for the prisoners, even though killing 20 people and destroying a habitat is apparently at the low end of the crimes that can land you there.
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Hellhole Prison / int_791fca45	comment	Persephone Penal Colony in BioShock 2, a place built by the opportunistic businessman Augustus Sinclair to house those who speak out against the hypocritical city leader Andrew Ryan. Suicide, violence and suffering were common, and many prisoners endured having to serve as test subjects, or were driven mad by the bright luminescent biomass outsidenote which according to Word of God is what mutated the sea slugs to produce ADAM preventing them from sleeping.
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Hellhole Prison / int_7a7a1a46	comment	AlienÂ³ takes place on Fiorina-161, a/k/a 'Fury', a maximum-security Penal Colony with no weapons of any kind because without a functioning starship, escape is impossible anyway. The wardens as a result are nearly powerless against the apocalyptic cult that has gained control over the population, to say nothing of the Xenomorph that hitchhiked aboard the escape pod from the Sulaco. Interestingly it actually was a better prison in the past when it was properly staffed before Weyland-Yutani abandoned it; a facility built for 3,000 inmates has been reduced to housing 20 inmates with a 3-man staff.
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Hellhole Prison / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Arkham Asylum is not technically a prison, but still fits this trope to a T. Though intended to just be a mental institution for the criminally insane, the asylum de facto became one of these due to being the only place available for Gotham's Supervillains, even some who aren't insane. As such, the place is a Hellhole Prison both for the inmates AND the staff. For the inmates, the place is cold, dark, underfunded and many of the staff are abusive. For the staff, they're surrounded by some of the most notorious murderers to ever walk the planet, some of whom have incredibly deadly superhuman powers, and killing sprees occur virtually bi-weekly as security measures inevitably fail at some point. Blackgate Prison is a more traditional version of this trope, being home to Gotham's rank-and-file murderers, rapists and drug dealers. During Batman: No Man's Land, Blackgate was operated by Lock-Up. Batman remarks that it was never a pleasant place, but Lock-Up's sadism and obsession with punishment made it Hell on Earth. PeÃ±a Duro, the prison where Batman foe Bane was born and raised. Referred to by many of its inmates as 'the armpit of the Earth', PeÃ±a Duro was a prison island used to house Santa Prisca's most dangerous criminals. Many considered it as the world's most dangerous prison. Nightwing (Infinite Frontier) reveals Bludhaven has Bludhaven Private Prison. With Bludhaven already a Wretched Hive that makes Gotham look like Metropolis, this is expected. According to the Electrocutioner, one barely gets any food or sunlight there and Brutale claims he had friends who died there. Upon learning Blockbuster was the owner of the prison, they both vow to let others know so they never work with Blockbuster ever again.
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Hellhole Prison / int_7b432c9a	comment	Gideon The Cutpurse has the title character thrown in Newgate Gaol, a historical English prison for those awaiting hanging. It's described as filthy, overcrowded and crawling with lice, and Gideon is beaten, starved and has his shoes and clothing stolen by other inmates before his friends manage to pay for him to be moved to a less crowded cell.
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Hellhole Prison / int_7d656203	comment	Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force has the Human Ranch in the Vile God timeline. Assuming what Apollonius says is true, they work the prisoners 22 hours a day and give them only meals of water and moldy bread. That would kill someone within days at most. In the Evil Goddess timeline, the Justice Society Camp serves the same purpose.
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Hellhole Prison / int_7f2f55ad	comment	The Punisher MAX: In The Cell, Riker's is shown to be one, with beatings, murder and Prison Rape being commonplace. The chief guard is even part of an Aryan gang, something Frank uses to spark a murderous riot that he uses to distract from the fact that his main goal is actually the five mobsters who Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All and were behind the deaths of his family.
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Hellhole Prison / int_8125b468	comment	PeÃ±a Duro, the prison where Batman foe Bane was born and raised. Referred to by many of its inmates as 'the armpit of the Earth', PeÃ±a Duro was a prison island used to house Santa Prisca's most dangerous criminals. Many considered it as the world's most dangerous prison.
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Hellhole Prison / int_84f3f987	comment	Present in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V's Synchro Dimension City: the protagonists are sent to the "Facility", a place whose populace consists of mostly wrongly arrested Commons (low class citizens) and a handful of dangerous criminals. Both guards and inmates are Jerkasses; the only way to receive decent treatment as a human being (being given enough food, not being bullied by prisoners or personnel, not being forced into inhumane labor...) is by continuously bribing others with rare cards, hence the phrase "Here, your deck is your life". Also present Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds's Facility.
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Hellhole Prison / int_854aece7	comment	Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction: Zordoom Prison, run by Emperor Tachyon. People can be thrown in for slightest disobedience to his authority (and making fun of his Embarrassing First Name or stature actually warrants a death penalty), the pardons are extremely few and far between, the prison announcer mentions torture chambers and sensory deprivation tanks, the guards are numerous, sadistic, and armed to the teeth... overall, it's considered to be the worst prison in the universe.
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Hellhole Prison / int_8b41b7ab	comment	In Prison School the main characters have to spend one month in their high school's prison for getting caught peeping in the girls' bath. The prison cells are very dirty, the boys have to do a lot of hard labor and their prison guards, members of the school's student council punish them liberally. Despite all this Kiyoshi notes that it's only taken a few days for them to get used to their prison life. They still take their classes, though through a monitor, and they get the same food as the rest of the students. Unfortunately, it goes back to being a Hellhole Prison after Kiyoshi's breakout as the student council are more strict on the boys and manipulate the boys into getting themselves in trouble so they can be expelled from school.
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Hellhole Prison / int_8cd4173b	comment	Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore features Erkstag, a prison that the German Ministry of Magic utilizes to hold important prisoners. When his brother Theseus gets sent there after being captured, Newt is forced to make his way through the prison without his wand or his magical creatures, discovering there are no bars on the cells of the prisoners which surround a massive and seemingly bottomless stone pit. Instead, they are tied up and held upside down, with a single magical firefly as a source of light. Worse still, these lights serve a secondary purpose: they ward off the massive manticore that's hidden in the heart of the pit, and whenever the light gives out on a cell, the manticore uses its massive and lethal pincer to stab or wrap around a prisoner, and then it drags them into the darkness, where it consumes part of them and leaves the rest of the body for the baby manticores to consume. Had it not been for Newt's knowledge of magical creatures and a Portkey Dumbledor had left for them, they wouldn't have made it out alive from there.
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Hellhole Prison / int_8d853624	comment	On Turn Selah Strong was held on the notorious British prison ship HMS Jersey (see Real Life section). After only a few months on the ship, he is a wreck and it's clear that he would not have survived much longer. The guards care so little about the prisoners that they routinely lose track of which ones are alive and which ones died.
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Hellhole Prison / int_8deb62ad	comment	Prison Break: Fox River State Penitentiary. Bizarrely, however, this prison has access to things like chem labs — which kind of makes a person wonder why riots aren't a hell of a lot worse than they already are. The PenitenciarÃa Federal de Sona in the third season fits the trope even better. Guards only venture inside the prison in the event of major riots or to collect dead bodies.
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Hellhole Prison / int_8e94290f	comment	In Swinging Pendulum has the Muken where Ichigo is jailed in total darkness with no contact with the outside world, not allowed to speak to anyone.
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Hellhole Prison / int_90c73dda	comment	The Yeerk Pool in Animorphs is like this, as the hosts are imprisoned in cages and scream for help while their yeerks swim in the pool.
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Hellhole Prison / int_928a8b2b	comment	The Labyrinth in The Death Gate Cycle. The Sartans lock the Patryns in a prison dimension, allegedly to teach them empathy, to rely on each other, and help each other through crises. However, it turns into a Hell, supposedly from the secret desire of the Sartans, who created the prison from magic (and sundered the whole world to boot), that the Patryns would just die.
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Hellhole Prison / int_95a665e8	comment	Nightwing (Infinite Frontier) reveals Bludhaven has Bludhaven Private Prison. With Bludhaven already a Wretched Hive that makes Gotham look like Metropolis, this is expected. According to the Electrocutioner, one barely gets any food or sunlight there and Brutale claims he had friends who died there. Upon learning Blockbuster was the owner of the prison, they both vow to let others know so they never work with Blockbuster ever again.
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Hellhole Prison / int_96cea144	comment	In Five Years To Freedom, most of the prison camps that the Vietcong keep Rowe and his fellow Marines in are this way. In fact, he sees several of his friends die because of how brutal the prison conditions are.
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Hellhole Prison / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): When Wilson Fisk is arrested, he's sent to Rikers. The prison at the time is largely ruled by Dutton, who controls 80% of the contraband that enters the prison and owns most of the guards. Through a series of machinations, Fisk tricks Frank Castle into murdering Dutton, and takes over the prison for himself. Following Fisk's release in season 3, Matt visits the prison to find out information about his stay...only for Fisk to remotely order the guards and inmates start a riot in an attempt to kill Matt.
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Hellhole Prison / int_9ab064e6	comment	Les MisÃ©rables opens with a Job Song by a bunch of prisoners doing hard labour who liken their conditions to slavery and long for death. The plot begins with Jean Valjean's release on parole after 19 years.
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Hellhole Prison / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: The Eyrie, a castle perched high on the slopes of a very tall mountain, has the Sky Cells, which have three walls and slightly sloped floors and are presided over by a sadistic brute. Where the fourth wall would be is empty space over a several hundred foot drop. When Tyrion angers his captor she commands that he be sent back to a cell with a more steeply sloped floor. Sweetsister has cells that are halfway below high tide, so the prisoner has to keep their head above water and gets drenched. King's Landing has cells of increasing Hellholines as you go down. First you have regular, run-of-the-mill castle dungeons for common prisoners, with common cells lit by small windows. Next there's individual, windowless and torch-lit cells for noble prisoners. The third level down, the Black Cells, has very little light and solid doors that ensure the cells are absolutely pitch-black. They have no beds and no buckets for waste, ensuring the bedding on the floor is always filthy with bodily waste and pests, and are reserved for the vilest criminals and traitors whom the crown wants to lock away permanently or to break psychologically. The fourth level is for torture, and is said to be best crossed in the darkness, to avoid having to see what's down there. Cersei makes all this even worse by giving a Mad Doctor/ Necromancer the run of them. The Wall has ice cells, which are permanently at below freezing temperatures. Hope they let you keep your warm clothing. While not seen, Casterly Rock apparently has cells too small for someone to lie down in.
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Hellhole Prison / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Impel Down in One Piece may be the worst prison in fiction. The warden is a Poisonous Person who is not at all averse to killing prisoners with his powers (and is one of the few characters who's handed Luffy his ass), and he has a staff of Badass Normals (including one Vice-Warden and devilish beasts and guards) under his command. There is also a literal evocation of hell, down to the horns on most of the higher staff. But the layout of the prison is the real nail in the coffin. It is so bad that it's literally called hell. Level 1 is Crimson Hell, where prisoners are forced to walk through fields of razor-sharp grass and trees, thus dyeing them red with their blood; Level 2 is Wild Beast Hell where wild beasts roam the floors, and the prisoners are forced to flee from them; Level 3 is Starvation Hell, a desert-like environment where prisoners are kept in a near-death state of starvation... and the sand on the level is from the prisoners that have succumbed to death; Level 4 is Blazing Hell, where the prisoners are forced to labor and endure torture at boiling temperatures, its this level that provides Level 3 with its desert like heat; Level 5 is Freezing Hell, where the prisoners are kept in subzero temperatures with food practically inedible due to said temperatures, and wolves that were deemed too vicious for Level 2 roam around too; and Level 6 is Eternal Hell, reserved only for the worst of the worst criminals, its existence unknown to the general public. The criminals on the lowest level are erased from history... but due to them being so powerful, it's the only level that's like a standard prison, as torture would be wasted on them. (So, when Luffy told Ace that You Are Worth Hell, he meant it.) In spite of the above, however, it's been shown that even THEY have standards; former Chief Jailer Shiryu of the Rain was an Ax-Crazy maniac. As stated above, warden Magellan wasn't opposed to killing criminals, but he only did it if he was provoked. Shiryu went on rampages killing prisoners just out of sadistic pleasure, and it got so bad that Magellan locked him up in Level Six.
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Hellhole Prison / int_a13a0bb0	comment	Six of Crows has Hellgate. It's right in the name. The prison also has the Hellshow, where prisoners are forced to fight each other and wild animals in order to gain privileges.
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Hellhole Prison / int_a183d57f	comment	Subverted in Futurama with the Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots. It's not so bad for robots - it even manages to cure them - but when Fry spends time there in Insane In The Mainframe he completely loses his mind, largely because the doctors assume that if he's in there, he has to be a robot, all evidence to the contrary be damned.
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Hellhole Prison / int_a3b9fc57	comment	Bleach has the Nest of Maggots which, at first glance, seems more drab than anything. The prisoners are even allowed to mingle in the main chamber with little supervision. However, the stress of being imprisoned for who knows how many centuries in a dark hole in the ground is enough to drive many Shinigami insane.
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Hellhole Prison / int_a5db6eab	comment	Cape Doom in The Legend of Tarzan. Described by Colonel Staquait as a "Fate Worse than Death".
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Hellhole Prison / int_a5fe3567	comment	Fort Charlotte, the Union POW camp Jonah was confined to in Jonah Hex.
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Hellhole Prison / int_a8639b13	comment	Fablehaven has the cells in the Great Ziggurat at Living Mirage, where Seth, Kendra, and other heroes end up being locked up in damp cells where the only water comes from leaks and the only food comes perhaps once a day and is practically inedible.
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Hellhole Prison / int_ad1ac198	comment	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang doesn't sugarcoat the novel writer's ordeal in prison. 15 hours of backbreaking labor 6 days a week, a diet of pig fat with a dough ball made of flour and lard, and of course lashes with the strap if the guards think you didn't work hard enough.
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Hellhole Prison / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: The Eyrie has cells with sloping floors and a massive drop instead of a fourth wall. The Black Cells beneath the Red Keep are so called because they seldom see the light of even a torch. During his captivity, Jaime Lannister is kept chained to a post in a roofless pen without so much as a pail to shit in. He later points this out to his brother, Tyrion, whose cell is rather spacious and comfortable by comparison.
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Hellhole Prison / int_b41004a1	comment	Lost Odyssey: The Lottery of Life story is about a juvenile prison like this, in a country where the people have been brought up for generations to believe that attempting to rehabilitate even petty criminals is pointless — once you commit any kind of crime, you're officially considered subhuman for the rest of your life. When the prison gets set on fire, the guards order Kaim (who's been hired as extra security during a rebellion) to abandon the prison, leaving the 'losers' inside to burn to death. He refuses to go along with it, knocks another guard unconsious and steals their keys, letting the most rebellious prisoner free first and giving him the keys, but not before telling him that they should return the following morning since if they tried escaping in their weakened condition, they'd only end up being captured and executed as a punishment as well as proving everyone that they're the untrustworthy losers that everyone thinks they are. After the prisoners prove themselves by saving numerous people in the fire and giving their lives for them, a more organized rebellion takes root in a few years and the most rebellious prisoner ends up becoming the country's new leader. Kaim himself also ends up in one of these in the story They Live In Shells, where the titular "shells" are basically isolated cells without any windows or bars, making them pitch black from the inside. Being immortal, Kaim naturally makes out eventually. Most of his cellmates aren't as lucky, with the luckiest of them ending up burning out his retinas with sunlight after finally getting out of the complete darkness.
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Hellhole Prison / int_b4967d43	comment	In Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic Prison Island Break, Prison Island is a dreadful place where to save himself time, the sadistic Head Warden Mephiles encourages prisoners to make life unpleasant for each other. And they do. Oh boy they do.
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Hellhole Prison / int_b5cbf32c	comment	The eponymous Dead Leaves lunar prison colony, populated almost entirely by the rejects of a secret cloning project for the military and manned by the project's successful, sadistic results.
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Hellhole Prison / int_b9f07386	comment	Gamer is of a similar vein, with prisoners being used in wargames for the amusement of millions of people. Even aside from that, the movie goes out of its way to depict the prison being as horrible as possible, with an inmate going mad and ripping his own throat out eliciting nothing more than an annoyed shrug from the guards.
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Hellhole Prison / int_c0d124e1	comment	The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay takes place in the eponymous maximum-security prison, housing the most notorious criminals in the galaxy. It's divided into three levels, each one more hellish than the previous: the first level is pretty much a "normal" prison (although madness-inducingly horrible and violent), the second is a series of tunnels infested by murderous alien bugs where the prisoners must mine for precious ores under terrible conditions, and in the last (saved only for the very worst of the worst) the prisoners are simply kept frozen in cryostasis for the rest of their lives (except for a two minutes long exercise period per day in an extremely well secured area).
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Hellhole Prison / int_c2297a9c	comment	The punishment for judges found guilty of corruption in Judge Dredd is twenty years of hard labor on Titan. The guards take pleasure in personally tormenting each inmate, and they're subjected to severe Body Horror so that they can survive in the frozen vacuum of the moon without space suits. The prisons used for civilian criminals aren't quite as bad, but they're still well-within Hellhole range. The most common punishment is the Iso-Cubes, which is a tiny, cramped cell made of transparent material, where you'll spend your ENTIRE TERM. No breaks, no outside exercise, nothing. And everyone goes in here if they're sentenced for a crime, even children. The only advantage this system has is that it makes gang formation impossible. Mutants are not subject to baseline human laws, but their sentences aren't much better. Due to lacking any real rights, all mutants who are caught are automatically deported to the hellish Cursed Earth. Mutant CRIMINALS are sentenced to forced labor on one of the many plantations out in the wasteland, which on top of basically being slave plantations surrounded by radioactive desert, are also not reviewed much, leading to the prisoners suffering a lot of abuse at the hands of the jailers due to the Judges being too busy with the cities to look after them.
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Hellhole Prison / int_c22ca244	comment	Escape Plan has The Tomb. The aptly-named maximum security prison where those held there never see the light of day again. Prisoners are blindfolded and drugged as they are transported to the prison. The guards wear black face masks with a blank expression for intimidation. They also regularly brutalize prisoners for so much as looking at them the wrong way, and they are helmed by their sociopathic captain, Drake. The cells are plexiglass boxes where the guards can see what a prisoner is up to at any time. And the worst part, Solitary Confinement involves confining prisoners in a small oubliette where a set of high-powered halogen lights are used to torture prisoners held there with sensory overload and sleep deprivation from the brightness and heat. When Breslin was thrown into solitary after he fought Rottmayer, the scene with his stay in solitary looked like that the guards were essentially cooking him in an oven.
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Hellhole Prison / int_c34ab4c	comment	If you thought Impel Down was bad enough in canon, This Bites! somehow manages to make it even more terrifying with all the upgrades it receives. Let's have a look, shall we? Level 2 gets canals installed so that Sea Kings can roam the floor. Level 3 becomes even drier and more inhospitable, but also new mechanisms that the wardens can use to shift the geography. Level 4 gets the stone replaced with metal, which literally cooks the prisoners when they walk on it. It also gains reflective mirrors which can concentrate the heat into incinerating beams. Level 5 gets thin ice pit traps that lead into freezing waters and is also the new home of Hiuo Hiruno, the wielder of the Cold Cold Fruit, who is given special treatment in exchange for using her powers to make the level even colder than before. As if things weren't bad enough with the new-and-improved Impel Down, there also exists a prison that is even worse. Said prison is Serpent, the Seventh Hell of Darkness, which is where the World Nobles send all who have ever dared to openly challenge the iron grip the they have on the world; political prisoners, dissidents, and revolutionaries of all kind. It's a massive labyrinthine fortress full of traps and monsters, overseen by the most ruthless and heartless guards the World Nobles can get. Prisoners are thrown in and left to rot, devolving into feral, cannibalistic beasts. It's a place so foul that the World Nobles didn't trust Impel Down to enact it: let that sink in. The only people who know it exists are the guards and the denizens of Mariejois, who actually broadcast the suffering and degradation of the prisoners from the island to their city as entertainment for the World Nobles.
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Hellhole Prison / int_c48d9d6f	comment	Rimworld: Given the fact you can take prisoners and actually need a prison to keep them in, given the kind of game it is hellholes were inevitable, though the game does take multiple angles of discouraging such behaviour. Either way, they go from the neglectful and hurried "sleep on the floor in the middle of a bunch of workshops" sort to truly horrible torments where they lock you up in a cramped dark room, feed you with the other prisoners that didn't make it, and probably steal your organs. Regarding discouragement: Any colonists who aren't officially psychopaths will get mood negatives from prisoners dying, being organ harvested, being unjustly executed, or dying from having vital organs removed and releasing prisoners alive and well gets major positive relation boosts with their home faction and a positive mood for your colonists. Or to mix things, heal them up and keep their bits attached for the best slave price.
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Hellhole Prison / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty: In Call of Duty: Black Ops, we have Vorkuta, where a very bloody uprising leads to hundreds (if not thousands) of Prisoner and Guard deaths, and the lone escape of Cpt. Alex Mason. For Mob of the Dead in Nazi Zombies, take Alcatraz, fill it with post apocalyptic decor, such as razor wire, sheets of metal, and the dead bodies of zombies coated in razor wire and perforated with wooden planks. This is essentially the entire setting. It's even a literal example, as the mobsters are in fact trapped in Hell/Purgatory. In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, TF141 breaks into one to kidnap the prisoner inside for information on Makarov. The entire gulag exists to punish one guy: Captain Price. In Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, the Atlas Prison Camp in the level Captured is a high-tech example of this. As you and your captured team are marched through, you witness guards in Powered Armor tossing around and beating up prisoners, executing prisoners in a trench by the mass, prisoners locked up in tiny metal boxes they can't even stand up in or chained to a post to bake in the hot desert sun, and even worse, subjecting prisoners to gruesome medical experimentation against their will for Atlas's superweapon Manticore. Needless to say, this is practically an errant violation of the Geneva Convention and Nuremberg Code, but since Atlas is a Private Military Contractor and its leader the Big Bad, they can almost get away with it, provided that the world hasn't caught on to Atlas's ulterior motives until the 2nd half of the campaign.
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Hellhole Prison / int_c5eaa1a9	comment	In the animated version of Beetlejuice, after BJ is set up and arrested for "shoplifting" (as in, lifting the entire shop) he's sent to the rehabilitation of the Nether-Netherworld, which is Hell for someone like him; the place is a Sugar Bowl full of rainbow, sunshine, and sugar plums, where the warden and the guards dress like kewpie dolls. Unable to escape from this horrid -- to him -- place, it gets worse; the rehabilitation works, and he becomes so polite and courteous that Lydia finds him more annoying than ever. Then, even worse; when Lydia decides to go there to give them a piece of her mind, she finds it just as inescapable for her as he did. It takes the veteran Mad Scientist Dr. Prankenstein — and something he had been saving for a special occasion — to get BJ back to normal in time.
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Hellhole Prison / int_c6313d49	comment	The King Nobody Wanted: The salt mines of Saltcliffe are staffed by unwilling workers and are viewed with horror throughout the Iron Islands.
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Hellhole Prison / int_c67a1218	comment	The Legend of Dragoon: Hellena Prison. Despite its name, the prison itself is pretty decent in regards to living conditions. But it's run by a sadistic Fat Bastard named Fruegel, who not only excessively enjoys hurting and killing others (including his own men) but has a tendency to feed people to his pet monster, Jiango. Many of his subordinates seem to be cruel as well, but they look downright decent next to Fruegel.
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Hellhole Prison / int_c6fd45	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_c6fd45	comment	The prison within Hell does not qualify in Void Domain, however one demon among the cast has her own private prison which definitely fits in.
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Hellhole Prison / int_ca48bb5c	comment	Bargate prison from Fable where the player and his mother are tortured for several years.
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Hellhole Prison / int_ca92edf1	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_ca92edf1	comment	In Call of Duty: Black Ops, we have Vorkuta, where a very bloody uprising leads to hundreds (if not thousands) of Prisoner and Guard deaths, and the lone escape of Cpt. Alex Mason.
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Hellhole Prison / int_cc1854bd	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_cc1854bd	comment	The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case: Although not a lot of it is seen on-screen, everything indicates that prison in the Andaman Islands where Small was being held was one of these; especially as he was being kept in solitary confinement.
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Hellhole Prison / int_d0c8185a	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_d0c8185a	comment	The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) has Crematoria, where the (Russian) guards occasionally release mutant dogs to eat anyone who's not quick enough to get out of the way. Oh, and the guards don't bother keeping the prisoners in line. They're up there in their rooms above the prison and never come down. See also the video game example below.
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Hellhole Prison / int_d0e25eb9	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_d0e25eb9	comment	Heavy Object has ChÃ¢teau de Rouge, a Legitimacy Kingdom prison where nobles dump commoners they find offensive. Prisoners are not allowed outside of their cells, which are effectively steel boxes hanging from cables in the open air and contain only a cot, toilet, and small sink. There is no air conditioning despite being in the tropics, just a vent to allow natural airflow. The guards are all thoroughly corrupt and revel in the power they have over the prisoners. Even if somebody could escape, the entire facility is on an artificial island in the middle of the ocean.
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Hellhole Prison / int_d30f13f0	comment	The eponymous prison in Deadman Wonderland, which is a Tailor-Made Prison built specifically for deadmen (as in, humans with the power to use their blood as lethal weapons) in mind. The prison is actually the tyrannical government's chief source of income, as they put the inmates through lethal Gladiator Games in a public event called the Carnival Corpse. (It is implied most citizens believe the fights are staged. They aren't.) Inmates are kept in line and "persuaded" to participate via Slave Collars that kill the wearer in three days, unless they reset the timer by eating candy, which they have to win at the Carnival.
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Hellhole Prison / int_d48d4b2a	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_d48d4b2a	comment	The convicts in Mad Dog Morgan and The Outlaw Michael Howe are transported to Australia in a cramped, hot and filthy prison hulk. Similarly, there are scenes in Ned Kelly, Van Diemen's Land, and Captain Thunderbolt featuring prisoners working in chain gangs.
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Hellhole Prison / int_d4fe0152	comment	The titular prison in the show Oz, despite a good part of it being an experiment to make it less of a hellhole.
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Hellhole Prison / int_d9673ef7	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_d9673ef7	comment	In The Handmaid's Tale, people that Gilead's society considers to be "undesirable" (including, but not limited to, gays and lesbians, feminists (even those of the non-Straw Feminist variety), people with disabilities, and Handmaids who have failed to conceive or who give birth to a deformed or disabled child) are sent to work camps, where their task is to clean up radioactive sludge with no protective equipment. Unsurprisingly, most who are sent to the work camps do not survive.
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Hellhole Prison / int_dc3c2fce	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_dc3c2fce	comment	In the Dred Chronicles, the lawless Prison Ship Perdition. The "neutral zone" where new prisoners are dropped off is the worst, as there's absolutely no law there. The gang-controlled areas might be better, depending on who the local warlord is and what rules they care to enforce. (There are no human guards, just robotic ones which prevent prisoners from doing anything too damaging to the ship itself but otherwise stay impartial.)
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Hellhole Prison / int_ded0e62f	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_ded0e62f	comment	The Chateau d'If, where Edmond Dantes is thrown following his betrayal by Fernand Mondego in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Hellhole Prison / int_e235270c	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_e235270c	comment	Possible to make in Stellaris, if you want to do so. Simply designate a planet as a Penal Colony, and voila, your other colonies see a decrease in crime rates as their criminals are summarily dumped onto a planet that is essentially an open-air prison with one way on and no ways off. Absolutely nothing is stopping the player from picking a Death World full of hostile fauna and flora or home to constant storms, or even a lifeless desert or frozen tundra with little to no soil suitable for agriculture.
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Hellhole Prison / int_e484b5e6	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_e484b5e6	comment	Blackgate Prison is a more traditional version of this trope, being home to Gotham's rank-and-file murderers, rapists and drug dealers. During Batman: No Man's Land, Blackgate was operated by Lock-Up. Batman remarks that it was never a pleasant place, but Lock-Up's sadism and obsession with punishment made it Hell on Earth.
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Hellhole Prison / int_e6758d93	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_e6758d93	comment	Scion has Durance Vile, a dimension that embodies this trope by taking on the features of the most notorious prisons in history. The sample adventure in the core book God deals with taking the avatars of the Titans there to be imprisoned as part of a plan to end the war between them and the Gods. Unfortunately, said Titans end up breaking free of their chains.
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Hellhole Prison / int_e6bfadc3	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_e6bfadc3	comment	Weapon Brown has "Id" (as in The Wizard of Id). Even before the Last War, it was pretty bad, but After the End, the Syndicate transformed it into a serious Hellhole Prison, ruled over with an iron first by the "King" Of Id. The prisoners are all physically and psychologically tortured, and invariably become agoraphobic, to the point that instead of an isolation chamber, prisoners are punished by being put in the excersize yard, where they'll grind their fingers to the bone trying to dig through the concrete to escape the open space. On top of everything else, Id is also home to the notorious black magician and serial killer "Wizard", originally an inmate of the prison, but now serves as the Syndicates go-to guy for magic.
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Hellhole Prison / int_e6c59cc4	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_e6c59cc4	comment	Quake II: The third unit is mostly a prison (including a torture chamber level) where the imprisoned human soldiers have been tortured to the point of madness, and can only be mercy killed.
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Hellhole Prison / int_e89f5bd5	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_e89f5bd5	comment	The frontier quarters in MartÃn Fierro are this: the army accomplishes a punitive function there, and it's a convenient way to get rid of gauchos.
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Hellhole Prison / int_ecc94716	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_ecc94716	comment	In Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, the Atlas Prison Camp in the level Captured is a high-tech example of this. As you and your captured team are marched through, you witness guards in Powered Armor tossing around and beating up prisoners, executing prisoners in a trench by the mass, prisoners locked up in tiny metal boxes they can't even stand up in or chained to a post to bake in the hot desert sun, and even worse, subjecting prisoners to gruesome medical experimentation against their will for Atlas's superweapon Manticore. Needless to say, this is practically an errant violation of the Geneva Convention and Nuremberg Code, but since Atlas is a Private Military Contractor and its leader the Big Bad, they can almost get away with it, provided that the world hasn't caught on to Atlas's ulterior motives until the 2nd half of the campaign.
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Hellhole Prison / int_ef076a36	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: The Vidiian prison in "Faces". The prisoners are forced to do hard labour, and nearly all of them will eventually have their organs harvested by the Vidiians or be subjected to gruesome medical experiments. Tom Paris and Harry Kim find themselves unrightfully thrown into one of these in "The Chute" and almost kill each other during their time in there. Another episode had Tuvok tell a prisoner about the completely intolerable conditions of an alien prison. He was lying his ass off.
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Hellhole Prison / int_ef4c300f	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_ef4c300f	comment	Assassin's Creed III: Connor gets thrown into one complete with asshole guards and the occasional tortured scream, and an architecture that's somewhat reminiscent of The Dark Knight Rises' pit. The Prison Ship HMS Jersey also plays a minor part in the game.
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Hellhole Prison / int_f73ffcb8	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_f73ffcb8	comment	The Hitman 2 Sniper level "Crime and Punishment" has the Perm-14 prison facility in Siberia. 47 is assigned to murder a Ukranian mobster who has effectively been second in command for the past decade and is now seeking to free himself and the prison's warden who is taking a bribe from the mobster to facilitate his release. Formerly a Soviet gulag, the prison has devolved into a nightmare where the warden is corrupt to his core and the biggest security is a death squad of private mercenaries (who 47 is also assigned to kill) who regularly abuse and even murder inmates. Part of the client's stipulations is to cover up the murders of the mobster and the warden by setting off a riot, which is a simple feat considering tensions amongst the other prisoners is hitting such a boiling point that the prison is being investigated by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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Hellhole Prison / int_fad5e3d9	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_fad5e3d9	comment	Fortress (1992): The titular Fortress, built inside a mining facility with No OSHA Compliance and massively overcrowded. Petty criminals are thrown together with murderers and rapists, and prisoners routinely suffer physical and mental torture for the most trivial things, such as having a wet dream.
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Hellhole Prison / int_fb26bc2e	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_fb26bc2e	comment	The Sentinel: "Prisoner X". After his high-school buddy mysteriously dies in prison, Jim poses as an inmate to uncover the cause of his—-and other prisoners'—-deaths. He uncovers a hellhole prisoner where inmates are forced to fight for the amusement of the guards and the warden.
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Hellhole Prison / int_ff28e288	type	Hellhole Prison
Hellhole Prison / int_ff28e288	comment	The Chronicles of Taras: Red Dementia is set in a girl's prison camp in the middle of a pitch-black, sub-freezing desert where the Guards unleash mutated creatures called Rakes on the unwitting teenagers.
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Hellhole Prison	processingCategory2	Prison Tropes
Hellhole Prison	processingCategory2	This Index Has Had a Hard Life
Deca-Dence / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Street Fighter II V / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Civil War (2006) (Comic Book) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Clive Barker's Hellraiser (Comic Book) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Crush & Lobo (Comic Book) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Hack/Slash (Comic Book) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Jonah Hex (Comic Book) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Luke Cage: Hero for Hire (Comic Book) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Wonder Woman (1942) (Comic Book) / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Wonder Woman (1987) (Comic Book) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Flash Gordon 2023 (Comic Strip) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality / Fan Fic / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Heroes And Allies / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Hellhole Prison
How the Light Gets In (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
I Will Not Bow / Fan Fic / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Prison Island Break (Fanfic) / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Split Second / Fan Fic / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door / Fan Fic / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
All For You (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Colossus Joins Weapon X (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Forum of Thrones (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Halkegenia Online (Fanfic) / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Justice (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Luffy's Renewed Adventure (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Murderer's Row (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Roger, Roger (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Split Second (My Little Pony) (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The King Nobody Wanted (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
What If Sonic Lost His Memory? (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
With Pearl and Ruby Glowing (Fanfic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Alien³ / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Anjaam / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Artemis Fowl / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Barabbas / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Ben-Hur (1959) / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Blue Streak / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Brokedown Palace / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Bronson / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Caged / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Cape Fear / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Captain America: Civil War / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Chained Heat (1983) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Children of Men / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Colors / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Danton / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Deadpool 2 / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Death Race / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Escape from Alcatraz / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Escape Plan / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Fortress (1992) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Gamer / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Idiocracy / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Indochine / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Le Professionnel / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Legend (2015) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Lock Up / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Mad Dog Morgan / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
No Escape (1994) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Papillon (1973) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Project Nim / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
RRR (2022) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Red Notice / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Runaway Train / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Scum / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Black Cat / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Dark Knight Rises / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Escapist (2008) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Hill / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Last Castle / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Shawshank Redemption / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
There Was a Crooked Man... / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Uncharted (2022) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Van Diemens Land	seeAlso	Hellhole Prison
Wrongfully Accused / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Arrowverse (Franchise) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Gaming Garbage (Lets Play) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Nnemonic (Lets Play) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Dark Id (Lets Play) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Heavy Object / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
All Along the Watchtower / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
All the Pretty Horses / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
America Is Not the Heart / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Asian Saga / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Barber Black Sheep / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Black Legion / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Bloodlines / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Capital / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Conqueror Serial / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Escape From Camp 14	seeAlso	Hellhole Prison
Fabled Hearts	seeAlso	Hellhole Prison
Firefly: Life Signs / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Geist Series / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Heavy Object / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
HorrorstÃ¶r / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
It Can't Happen Here / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Kitty Norville / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
March Violets / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Mass / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Monster (Myers) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Murderous Maths / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Parable of the Sower / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Count of Monte Cristo	seeAlso	Hellhole Prison
The Count of Monte Cristo / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Mental State / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Queen's Thief / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Stars' Tennis Balls / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Arivne	seeAlso	Hellhole Prison
HellHolePrison	sameAs	Hellhole Prison
InHell	seeAlso	Hellhole Prison
Prison School (Manga) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin (Manga) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Andor / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Arvingerne	seeAlso	Hellhole Prison
Batman (1966) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Big Mouth (2022) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Castle Rock / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Game of Silence (US) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Ghost Adventures / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Gotham / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Grantchester / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Kings / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Majisuka Gakuen / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Mindhunter / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Orange Is the New Black / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Porridge / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Prisoner: Cell Block H / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
SCTV / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Sandglass / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Sons of Anarchy / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The A-Team / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Count of Monte Cristo (1964) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Magnificent Seven (1998) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Swamp Fox / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Vietnam War / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Turn / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Years and Years / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Battlezoo (Tabletop Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Blades in the Dark (Tabletop Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
City of 7 Seraphs (Tabletop Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Eclipse Phase (Tabletop Game) / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Geist: The Sin-Eaters (Tabletop Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
HoL (Tabletop Game) / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Invisible Sun (Tabletop Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Predation (Tabletop Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
13th Age (Tabletop Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
A Dance with Rogues (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Age of the Ring (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Assassin's Creed III (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Bastard Bonds (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Batman: Arkham Knight (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
BattleTech (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Berwick Saga (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
BioShock 2 (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Black Home 2 (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Call of Duty: Zombies (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Dark Souls III (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Demon's Souls (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Escape from Butcher Bay (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Fairy Fencer F (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Far Cry: New Dawn (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Hitman 2 (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Legacy of Kain (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Magi-Nation (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Max Payne 3 (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Mob of the Dead (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Mortal Kombat 9 (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Nexus War (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Octopath Traveler II (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Pixel Dungeon (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Prison Architect (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Sincere Deceit (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Syphon Filter (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Tales of Berseria (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Callisto Protocol (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Escapists (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The King of Fighters XIV (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Last Sovereign (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Utawarerumono (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
War Mongrels (Video Game) / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Yakuza 0 (Video Game) / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Yakuza 5 (Video Game) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Bloodbound (Visual Novel) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Where Was My Hero...? (Web Animation) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
BuzzFeed Unsolved (Web Video) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Joueur du Grenier (Web Video) / int_d7e8a6ad	type	Hellhole Prison
Let's Game It Out (Web Video) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Mianite (Web Video) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Furry Fight Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Just a Goblin (Webcomic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Particle Fiction (Webcomic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Lydian Option (Webcomic) / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Arcane / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Mighty Max / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Torchwood / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
The Legend of Tarzan / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison

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