Seoul Detention Center
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The Seoul Detention Center (Korean: 서울구치소; Hanja:서울拘置所, alternatively Seoul Prison)[1] is a prison in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea,[2] operated by the Korea Correctional Service.
History
The Detention Center was completed in July 1967.[3]
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.[4]
Operations
The Center houses an execution chamber.[5]
Notable prisoners
Current
- Yoo Young-chul: South Korean serial killer[5]
Former
- Former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo[6][7]
- Lee Jae-yong: Vice Chairman of Samsung Group[8][9]
- Park Geun-hye: Former president of South Korea who was impeached and sentenced to prison for bribery, abuse of power, and other offenses.[10][11]
- Kang Chang-gu: Serial killer, executed on April 17, 1990.
- Oen Bo-hyun: Spree killer, executed on November 2, 1995.
- Six members of the Chijon family, executed on November 2, 1995.
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