The Seoul Detention Center (;

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: 서울拘置所, alternatively Seoul Prison) is a prison in

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, Gyeonggi Province,

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, operated by the Korea Correctional Service.

History

The Detention Center was completed in July 1967. According to a 1992 report by the Lawyers for Democratic Society, in 1990 the Detention Center had 1,500 prisoners in the medical section with only one full-time doctor, and prisoners frequently lacked necessary medical treatments.

Operations

The Center houses an execution chamber.

Notable prisoners

Current

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References

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