Inmates have been eat the dead to survive while also suffering from appalling medical conditions in the 'world's worst prison'.
Gitarama Prison in Rwanda is reported to suffer from vast overcrowding, with thousands of inmates stuffed into a space designed for just a few hundred to a thousand people.
Estimates put the number of inmates there at between 5,000 and 7,000 people, while reports conflict over how many people the prison is supposed to hold.
Amnesty International said in 2007 that it "reportedly held 7,477 detainees although its official capacity was 3,000".
Zee News claim that fights regularly break out due to the awful conditions and desperate prisoners are forced to feast on human flesh.
Conditions in the prison have been condemned for a long time. In 1995, a report looked into the deplorable living status for those inside and it revealed damning details about the conditions prisoners were being kept.
Brigitte Troyon, then of the International Committee of the Red Cross, told the Independent: "The conditions here are completely inhumane. It's urgent that they are improved.
"Half a dozen people are dying in Gitarama every day. If an epidemic breaks out there's no knowing how many could die."
More recent reports are hazy, but it appears things have not improved much. Rwanda has also called the reports a "fabrication".
A spokesperson said: "The detention facilities at the time were crowded because of the sheer numbers of suspects and limited available infrastructure, but there was none of the extreme and sensational conditions reported, like cannibalism – this is a pure fabrication.
"Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) is mandated to protect the society from offenders incarcerated by due process of the law."
Rwanda has had several highlighted incidents in recent years that have been flagged by human rights organisations, such as forced disappearances and torture, it is one of the reasons why the UK government's policy to deport asylum seekers there for processing is so controversial.
In 1995, more than 1,000 detainees were reported to have died inside the jail, while there were further reports of rotting limbs due to a lack of medical care and unhygienic beds.
At the time, the concerns even caused a question to be raised in the House of Commons.
Former Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Sir Jeremy Hamley revealed: "The International Committee of the Red Cross believes that just over 2,000 people have died in 13 Rwandan prisons in the last year, most through health problems caused by overcrowding. Many of these were in Gitarama."
Many of the inmates were said to be suspects of the horror crimes of the Rwandan genocide, which saw the brutal murder of as many as 800,000 people in 1994 over a period of around 100 days.
