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The conditions... Oh man! Were they fucked up... When there are people from Nigeria and Pakistan complaining about human rights abuses, you know it's bad.

50 people per cell, just 1 blanket, crackers for breakfast, with porridge, and tea on occasion, or hot water. sardines and rice for lunch and dinner, with some greens, and a bread roll, a piece of chicken to replace the sardines if you are lucky.. There is no "yard." you are locked down in your cell - always.

Also, don't get sick in there. There is no medicine.

Also... Shit overflew out of the toilets...

Being caught with 1 kilo of drugs including marijuana in Malaysia is an automatic death sentence and if you have less than that on yourself you don't get much better than a hanging... It ranges from 10, 20, 30 years, and life.

With that being said... ALL of the guards were selling drugs to the inmates.

Many things. Here are a few...

When you are in another country it is important to have a firm understanding on that culture's thinking process before embarking on any endeavors.

The police in the US, are not THAT bad. Nor is the legal system.

When you are in another country, especially places in Asia, locals can come across as immature and/or annoying to us in the west, but it's important to try and keep in mind that they are STILL adults, and go through the same life that we do in their own countries. So be social with locals and not just other expats, and try to make as many good friends as you can, they are not that hard to find, and unlike back home a lot of times they can go out of their way to help you out if you really need it.

Either a contact for half of the business, which was 6 months overdue, or 6 months back pay, which was just 1k a month. Not much. We were still small, but started to get busy... The thing she didn't realize though, is that we were starting to get busy because of me... Not her.

No.

The guards loved to beat the crap out of inmates though. Wouldn't touch me though, as they are afraid of western embassies. Actually, the only thing that the American Embassy cares about is if you are being beaten or not, otherwise it could give two shits what happens to you.

Once in awhile though, one of the prisoners, usually Malaysian Indian, will fight the guards back, and they usually win... But they throw you in the hole for 6 months and only give you milk and a dinner role to eat 3 times a day. The rest is just black.

2 guys got into a small scuffle during the lunch handout outside of their cell one day though - they were quickly broken up though - Then thrown in the hole for 2 months each..

In general though. NO ONE WANTS TO FUCKIN FIGHT IN THERE.

No fear from other inmates, as in Malaysian Prison if you keep to yourself, they may try to steal some of your stuff if you are not looking, but no one bothers you like that. The intimidation game doesn't really exist like it does in the US... Because the guards would just beat the shit out of you if they saw you get out of hand or if other inmates complained.

But what was scary is that you have no idea what is happening outside.. You get to talk to no one and you are cut off from all communication. You just get to talk to the embassy once at the police station, one time in the first week.