This Mongolian Prison Kept Its Prisoners in Coffins
Also called “the Box of Death”
The idea of setting up a strict prison sounds about right when it comes to fixing the morals of an offender. A person like that deserves a specific correctional treatment if they are to succeed and improve in the future. However, in trying to achieve that, some prisons are known to have messed up. When a crime happens, common sense deems it suitable to punish the criminals with a few years — or a lifetime — of imprisonment, but in addition to that, some prisons treat their prisoners like animals. These institutions neglect human rights laws and go so far with their brutality that it becomes almost difficult to tell who’s the real monster.
For the Mongolian people, it was the prison of Urga (now Ulaanbaatar) which treated its prisoners in a way that is beyond what words can describe. Cutting across all levels of brutality, the prisoners were given a barbaric treatment in what you can call “the Box of Death”.
Sitting behind a fenced wooden enclosure was a group of small houses. Each house, like a dungeon, was so dark that not much could be seen on the inside. The houses didn’t manage to keep out the cold, only protecting the inmates from the vicious winds. All of these houses had a bunch of wooden boxes inside of them. These boxes, measuring four feet long…
