I got offered some amazing money for simply taking a small suitcase lined with drugs into Singapore. Sounded so easy at the time but I got caught and went into one of their brutal prisons. i thought that my best way to survive was to be the tough guy. I am a big guy and my plan was working good. Then after months in that place a new female guard tried to prove herself while i was being moved to another cell and jabbed me hard in the back with her baton. My reaction was to turn around and head butt her. That was where everything went from bad to worse. A week later while in the shower a squad of guards came in and tazed me and then dragged me naked out into the yard. There all around were the prison guards and administrators. Looking out from the yard facing window bars were male prisoners on the one side wing and the females on the other side. I was taken to a 55 gal metal barrel, laid over it and tied over it. The guard that I assaulted was called over to watch and then I was caned in front of her. Caning is illegal in all but two countries because it tears skin, leaves terrible looking scars and can kill people from shock. I was caned 29 hits on the bottoms of my feet, my legs, my butt and my back. Before I was caned i was shown a hook hanging on a post in front of me. i got told that the caning would stop whenever I shouted out that i didn't want to be a man anymore. Once i said that the caning would stop and then my genitals would be cut off so everyone would see what happens to prisoners that attack female guards. I lasted 29 hits till i couldn't take it anymore and when I yelled out what everyone was waiting to hear, the prisoners on both sides started cheering about it. I was then tied on my back over the barrel. a rope was tied around my genitals and one of the guards came over and pulled tight till they were stretched outward. Then came the machete and in one hack I went from man to not a man and my genitals were laying in the dirt. Then one of the guards took my genitals to the hook and jabbed the hook right through the end of my penis and there were my genitals hanging on a hook in front of everyone like they said they would be. Then the guard I assaulted said to me. "No more tough guy now huh?" After that I was taken to the hospital infirmary. A week later I was put back in my cell naked. That night my cell was left unlocked and the guards watched prisoners come in,hold me down over the end of the bed and rape me. And I saw her watching, seeing what I'd become to everyone. One month later my family's petitions finally got to the right people and I was released to the American embassy. I was so happy but wished so much that my release was a month earlier.