![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/most-harrowing-prison-attacks/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_Suspected-serial-killer-Jeffrey-L-Dahmer-enters-t.jpg&description=Prison can be a very dangerous place, particularly when you're a notorious criminal well-known to your other inmates, and tensions have in the past erupted out in some harrowingly violent ways Life behind bars is no easy path to tread, and many prisoners will find themselves living in absolute terror of intimidation and even physical violence from fellow inmates. From gang-related disputes to targeted assaults on notorious killers, incarcerated individuals quickly learn to be vigilant of the other dangerous convicts they've been housed with, mindful that there are some inmates that just shouldn't be crossed. At times, such sickening acts of violence have escalated to attacks so deeply harrowing that they've made headlines all across the world, leaving even those living free lives beyond the prison walls shuddering with horror. Below are some of the most chilling prison acts to date, from boiling water attacks to disembowelments. On November 28, 1994, two years after he was sentenced, infamous "Milwaukee Cannibal" was savagely beaten to death with a metal bar by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin. Speaking with the New York Post in 2015, Scarver explained that he had become unnerved by Dahmer, who would deliberately taunt inmates by fashioning severed limbs out of his food, drizzling ketchup on top to look like blood. Scarver recalled: "He would put them in places where people would be. He crossed the line with some people — prisoners, prison staff. Some people who are in prison are repentant — but he was not one of them." Mitchell Harrison In October 2011, convicted child rapist Mitchell Harrison, 23, was disembowelled by fellow inmates Michael Parr and Nathan Mann, who lured him to Mann's cell at Frankland Prison, County Durham with the intention of cutting his liver in half and sharing it. As reported by The Independent at the time, Mann and Parr cut Harrison's neck using a scalpel crafted from plastic){kind=link}
Prison can be a very dangerous place, particularly when you’re a notorious criminal well-known to your other inmates, and tensions have in the past erupted out in some harrowingly violent ways
Life behind bars is no easy path to tread, and many prisoners will find themselves living in absolute terror of intimidation and even physical violence from fellow inmates. From gang-related disputes to targeted assaults on notorious killers, incarcerated individuals quickly learn to be vigilant of the other dangerous convicts they’ve been housed with, mindful that there are some inmates that just shouldn’t be crossed.
At times, such sickening acts of violence have escalated to attacks so deeply harrowing that they’ve made headlines all across the world, leaving even those living free lives beyond the prison walls shuddering with horror. Below are some of the most chilling prison acts to date, from boiling water attacks to disembowelments.
Jeffrey Dahmer
On November 28, 1994, two years after he was sentenced, infamous “Milwaukee Cannibal” Jeffrey Dahmer was savagely beaten to death with a metal bar by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin. Speaking with the New York Post in 2015, Scarver explained that he had become unnerved by Dahmer, who would deliberately taunt inmates by fashioning severed limbs out of his food, drizzling ketchup on top to look like blood. Scarver recalled: “He would put them in places where people would be. He crossed the line with some people – prisoners, prison staff. Some people who are in prison are repentant – but he was not one of them.”