San Vittore
The Prison of San Vittore in Milan was built between 1872 and 1879.
It's still active.
A famous convict (for a short period) was Gaetano Bresci.
Korydallos Prison Complex is the main prison of Greece, housing both maximum security men and women. Its most famous detainees are the notorious November 17 terrorist members. [neutrality disputed]The prison has consistently been cited by Amnesty International as one of the worst prisons in Europe, both for its overcrowding and inhumane treatment of detainees. The Hellenic Parliament has vowed to improve conditions, but due to bureaucratic delays, little has changed.
Imrali Adasi
Prison Island
This one is very famous in Turkiye. There is only one prisoner in this jail. His name's Abdullah Ocalan who was the leader of a terrorist organization PKK
Amnesty Law in its agenda, Nâzim commences a hunger strike on 8th April. On the same day, he is taken to Istanbul Pasakapisi Prison from Bursa. He temporarily ceases his strike on 23rd April upon the request of his counsels. He is seriously ill, the doctors state that he should be treated in a hospital during three months. However, as there is no change in his status, he restarts the strike on 2nd May. The hunger strike causes great reaction of people.
Sagmalcilar Prison as depicted in the film Midnight Express
American parents of jailed students are invariably flabbergasted at how little they can do to ease their cases. Ronald Lee Emmons, 22, a black Chicagoan and a former basketball player at the University of Illinois, was picked up in Istanbul for possession of two kilos of hash. Despite the efforts of his mother, he waited 13 months in Istanbul's Sagmalcilar prison before his case came to trial last February. He was sentenced to five years in jail, where all he can look forward to are the letters, books, money and extra food that U.S. Consul Douglas Heck brings on his twice-monthly visits. As a U.S. consular official in Lebanon confesses: "The truth is we simply can't do any more." The only American ever to be sprung from a Lebanese prison by executive clemency was a Los Angeles youth who was found to have terminal cancer. He was allowed to go home to die.
The suppression of basic human rights, disrespectful treatment, solitary confinement, denial of medical care, beating, torture and other physical and armed attacks on political captives have been and continue to be regular features of the Turkish prison system. Turkish fascism tries to justify this systematic aggression on the grounds, of maintaining order and discipline in its dungeons. Otherwise, they argue, the prisons face the danger of becoming foci of anarchy and chaos and ideological and political training camps for terrorists and present a challenge to the authority of the all-powerful Turkish state! The fact of the matter is that, from the point of view of the bloodthirsty Turkish ruling classes and the General Staff, all political captives, including the defendants are "terrorists"; and the best political captives are dead ones. Therefore political captives always are and have been obliged to fight for their basic human rights, including their rights to live in peace and dignity, to read books and newspapers, to defend themselves at court, to see their families and lawyers, to receive proper medical treatment, to send and receive letters and to not to be confined in solitary cells.
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