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00:00If they do that, there won't even be one meal in prison.
00:02I swear to God, they won't eat a grain of rice.
00:06Let's see how long their homeboys last inside.
00:08Imagine two prisons so fortified, so psychologically brutal,
00:11that escape is not even a fantasy.
00:14It's a forgotten concept.
00:16One stands in the blazing heart of Central America.
00:18The other, hidden near the border of Kazakhstan, lies under perpetual guard.
00:22Both are engineered not to rehabilitate, not even to punish, but to erase.
00:27Welcome to the extremes of human incarceration.
00:30El Salvador's Sikot and Russia's Black Dolphin Prison.
00:33One is a symbol of a nation's war on gangs.
00:36The other, a relic of Russia's darkest methods of control.
00:40In both, inmates live stripped of identity, hope, and humanity.
00:43But which prison is more terrifying?
00:45Which one breaks men faster?
00:47And what happens behind the walls where the world's most dangerous criminals are buried alive?
00:51Let's find out.
00:52These two institutions don't just hold criminals.
00:54They hold legends.
00:56At Sikot, El Salvador has funneled tens of thousands of alleged gang members
01:00into a steel and concrete fortress designed to disappear them.
01:04There's no way out.
01:06How are you going to come out of this?
01:07At Black Dolphin, Russia confines serial killers, terrorists, and cannibals
01:12in a regime so strict it borders on psychological torture.
01:15Both prisons are symbols.
01:17Sikot represents a modern political crackdown with a slick media campaign and military precision.
01:22Black Dolphin, meanwhile, is a ghost from the Cold War,
01:25a place where the human spirit goes to die in silence.
01:29Russia's Black Dolphin prison houses some of the country's toughest, most violent criminals.
01:34But in their own way, both offer a vision of ultimate state power.
01:38Let's begin in El Salvador.
01:39Sikot, the prison built for ghosts.
01:42Sikot stands for Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, and it's unlike anything Central America has seen.
01:49Built in 2022 under President Nayib Bukele, it was designed to house up to 40,000 inmates,
01:55making it the largest prison in the Americas.
01:57The facility sprawls over 410 acres, guarded by 9-meter-high walls topped with electric fencing and razor wire.
02:05There are eight modules, each surrounded by additional perimeter walls,
02:09watched from 19 towers and secured with signal jammers that cut off all communication.
02:13Inside, the prisoners are stripped of everything.
02:16White uniforms, shaved heads, no names, no visits, no phone calls, just concrete, steel,
02:22and the hum of surveillance cameras that never sleep.
02:25The lights never turn off.
02:26Personal space?
02:27Half a square meter.
02:29Water comes from a shared barrel.
02:30Toilets?
02:31Two for over 100 men per cell.
02:33But what makes Sikot so chilling isn't just its scale, it's its purpose.
02:37This isn't a correctional facility designed to reintegrate offenders into society.
02:42It's a bunker of silence.
02:44Eso que pasaba antes acá, acá y en la mayoría de comunidades de nuestro país ya no pasa más.
02:49Sino de que ahora tenemos la tranquilidad de que nuestros niños van a estar bien,
02:54de que nuestros jóvenes van a estar bien.
02:55A place where the outside world doesn't just lose track of people, it forgets they ever existed.
03:01With zero external communication, even family members often have no idea where their loved ones have been sent
03:06or whether they're still alive.
03:08Everywhere you look, control is absolute.
03:11The guards wear masks to hide their identities.
03:13Riot gear is on standby.
03:15Even the ground has pebbles designed to make silent movement impossible.
03:18Any attempt to sneak across a courtyard, even in the dead of night,
03:21would be instantly detected by the crunching of gravel underfoot.
03:26Sikot is a fortress of fear.
03:28And nobody gets out.
03:29Not physically, not mentally.
03:32Life and control inside Sikot.
03:34Daily life at Sikot is designed not just to confine, but to break the mind.
03:40Inmates spend 23 hours a day locked in overcrowded cells.
03:43There are no outdoor yards.
03:45Exercise is a privilege granted for one hour a week.
03:48Religious instruction is also limited, supervised under the watchful eyes of armed guards.
03:53Meals are meager.
03:54Beans, rice, tortillas.
03:56No meat, no variety.
03:58Inmates eat with their hands, seated on concrete floors.
04:01Hygiene is minimal.
04:02A single bucket of water must be used for bathing, drinking, and cleaning.
04:06There are no windows, and the ceiling lights burn through every hour of the day and night.
04:11But it's the sensory experience that wears inmates down.
04:14Constant brightness makes it impossible to track the passage of time.
04:18The air, thick and uncirculated, adds to the feeling of claustrophobia.
04:23The silence is broken only by the occasional command,
04:25or the shuffle of dozens of prisoners forced to march in unison, eyes down, hands behind their backs.
04:31For those who disobey, there is the isolation block.
04:35A cell with no light, no sound, no human contact,
04:38just a hole in the floor for a toilet, and a slab of concrete for a bed.
04:43Some men spend up to 15 days there, and many emerge broken.
04:47One former inmate described it as,
04:48worse than death.
04:50It's like you're being buried alive in your own mind.
04:53How do you feel about not seeing your family forever, since you're in Sakat?
04:57I feel bad, because I seen my son the last time when he was 5 years old,
05:01and he's 21 years old.
05:02Right now, I want to see him.
05:04I want to tell him, hey, don't do the same things that your dad did.
05:08Black Dolphin Prison, the Siberian Tomb
05:10Now let's cross the globe to Russia's Black Dolphin Prison,
05:14located in Orenburg, near the Kazakhstan border.
05:16The facility dates back to the 18th century,
05:19but was converted into a maximum security prison
05:21for the most dangerous criminals in modern Russia.
05:24The name Black Dolphin comes from a twisted sculpture of a dolphin
05:27outside the main entrance,
05:29a bleak symbol for a place where inmates are treated less like men
05:32and more like monsters.
05:34The prison houses roughly 700 inmates,
05:37all convicted of the most extreme crimes,
05:38serial killings, terrorism, child murders, and cannibalism.
05:44The main crime committed by the convicts here is murder.
05:49But we also have maniacs, pedophiles, and terrorists.
05:54The average sentence?
05:55Life without parole.
05:57And no inmate has ever escaped.
05:59Russia has designed Black Dolphin not just as a secure facility,
06:02but as a psychological weapon.
06:04The inmates are subjected to routines so rigid and unnatural,
06:07they leave no room for thought, only obedience.
06:10The prison's philosophy is clear.
06:12If you're here, you're never coming out,
06:13and while you're here, you will not feel like a human being.
06:17The Daily Regime of Black Dolphin
06:19Black Dolphin operates on a level of control
06:21even more precise than Sekat.
06:23Inmates are woken at 6 a.m.
06:25and must stand for 16 hours a day.
06:35Sitting or lying down is forbidden unless it's part of scheduled sleep.
06:39The standing rule isn't just physical,
06:41it's mental.
06:42It exhausts, it dehumanizes.
06:44They are blindfolded during transfers,
06:46bent forward at the waist with their hands cuffed behind their backs,
06:49escorted by multiple guards.
06:50This position renders escape or attack impossible
06:53and disorients the prisoner from knowing the layout of the facility.
06:57Each cell has triple steel doors.
06:59Surveillance is 24-7.
07:01Every 15 minutes, guards check on each prisoner.
07:04Like at Seiko T, the lights are always on.
07:06Meals are basic.
07:07Soup, bread, porridge.
07:09No contact with the outside world.
07:10No newspapers, no radio, no TV.
07:12Here, the aim is psychological annihilation.
07:15The message?
07:16You are not a man anymore.
07:17You are property of the state,
07:19and you will be treated as such every minute of every day.
07:22Former wardens have described the regime as
07:24compliance through exhaustion.
07:26The prisoners are given no opportunity to rebel,
07:28not even in their minds.
07:31Two philosophies, one goal.
07:33Though they exist in different political systems,
07:36Seiko and Black Dolphin operate under a shared logic.
07:39Absolute control equals absolute security.
07:42Seiko emphasizes mass incarceration and public fear.
07:45It was built as part of a massive crackdown on gang violence.
07:48Bukele himself has used the prison as a political symbol,
07:52showcasing heavily tattooed gang members hunched together,
07:55stripped of power.
07:55If someone believed that the delinquency could win the battle to El Salvador,
08:00it was wrong.
08:02Black Dolphin is the opposite.
08:03Secretive, silent, and old school.
08:06Russia doesn't show off its prisoners.
08:07It buries them in silence.
08:09Its philosophy is rooted in psychological attrition,
08:12but both achieve the same result.
08:14Inmates disappear.
08:15Physically, socially, spiritually.
08:19And yet, the contrast reveals something deeper.
08:22Seiko-T is spectacle.
08:24Broadcast to the world.
08:25A show of strength.
08:27Black Dolphin is shadow, hidden from sight.
08:29A whisper of terror.
08:30Two strategies, one mission.
08:32Control at any cost.
08:34Prisoner profiles, monsters in chains.
08:37At Seikot, many inmates are members of MS-13 and Barrio-18,
08:41notorious for their brutality.
08:43Some are linked to hundreds of murders.
08:45Tattoos mark their crimes.
08:47Teardrops, devils, numbers 13 or 18 inked across faces and bodies.
08:51One of the most infamous inmates is known only as Psycho,
08:54a high-ranking gang leader with a 25-year history of crime.
08:57You gotta kill people.
08:59You gotta rob.
09:00You gotta do what you gotta do to survive.
09:02You have to do those things.
09:03Yeah, you gotta do that.
09:04And if you didn't do those things, you wouldn't...
09:06You wouldn't be a gangbanger.
09:08In an interview from within the prison,
09:10he confessed to a life of destruction.
09:12They think it's power, he said.
09:14But it ends here, in a place like this, forgotten.
09:18Psycho's words have become a haunting warning to young Salvadorans tempted by the gang lifestyle.
09:23You will also never see your family.
09:26How do you cope with emotions, like missing someone?
09:28I feel bad.
09:29Sometimes, like I tell you, I lay down on my bed,
09:31and I think a lot of things, and sometimes I cry.
09:34In Black Dolphin, prisoners include some of the most disturbing criminals in Russia's history.
09:39One inmate, Alexander Pichushkin, known as the chessboard killer,
09:43claimed to have murdered up to 60 people.
09:45Today, we're going to be deep diving into the case of Alexander Pichushkin,
09:49a Russian-born serial killer who claimed the lives of up to 60 people between 1992 and 2006.
09:57Another, Mikhail Popkov, a former police officer,
09:59confessed to killing more than 80 women,
10:02often under the guise of offering them help.
10:04What's your dream?
10:05To get to the army.
10:06Well, if I say, just to say, I have a desire to be honest,
10:10it won't be honest, because it's not a computer gun,
10:16it's not a literary book, it's not a book, it's something super, super.
10:22There are even cannibals among the population, like Nikolai Jumagalev,
10:25who reportedly ate his victims after luring them into his home.
10:28Each of these men is kept under the strictest supervision.
10:32Interviews, when allowed, reveal little emotion.
10:34One serial killer described life inside as breathing without living.
10:38Another simply said,
10:39you forget what you are.
10:41These aren't just inmates, they're case studies in evil.
10:44But their punishment raises moral questions.
10:47At what point does justice become cruelty?
10:50Human rights versus public safety.
10:53Both prisons have faced criticism.
10:54Human rights organizations argue that the conditions at Cicot and Black Dolphin
10:58violate international standards.
11:00The UN has condemned the lack of due process in El Salvador's mass arrests.
11:05They were worried about the human rights of the killers.
11:07Which, you know, they have human rights.
11:09I don't say they don't, they're humans.
11:10But if you have to prioritize, what will you prioritize?
11:13Families of prisoners have no information.
11:16Innocent people have been swept up in raids.
11:18In Russia, critics say Black Dolphin's extreme isolation amounts to psychological torture.
11:24Yet both governments claim success.
11:26El Salvador's homicide rate has plummeted from over 100 per 100,000 to just 2.4 in 2023.
11:32Russia points to Black Dolphin's zero escape rate and low recidivism.
11:49So we ask again, where is the line between safety and savagery?
12:08Because when you look closely, the question isn't just about them, it's about us.
12:12Final verdict.
12:14Cicot is a symbol of political might.
12:16It uses media, intimidation, and mass incarceration to show results.
12:21Black Dolphin is a machine of silent repression.
12:24It breaks people not with violence, but with time.
12:26Which is worse?
12:28That depends on your definition of justice.
12:30One erases you in a crowd.
12:32The other erases you in isolation.
12:34But the message from both is the same.
12:36You are not coming back.
12:37Cicot and Black Dolphin are more than prisons.
12:40They are warnings etched in concrete and steel.
12:43Warnings to those who cross the line and to those who believe the line
12:46can never move.
12:47In these places, humanity is not lost.
12:50It's stripped away.
12:51Slowly.
12:52Deliberately.
12:53Methodically.
12:54Two countries.
12:55Two visions of punishment.
12:57One terrifying truth.
12:58Some doors, once closed, never open again.
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