Its distance to the Bakırköy Justice Palace is about 3 km (1.9 mi)[1] The administrative building consists of four stories.

On the ground floor, inmate reception, visiting rooms of prison physician and psychiatrist, personnel cafeteria, kitchen, laundry and photo lab, are found.

[1] Inner security of the correctional institution is provided by prison wardens and head officials, who work in four shifts.

After the inmates count, convicts and detainees are prepared until 9:00 hours to go to the primary care unit, hospital or court.

Inmates can join social activities before and after the lunch, can read newspapers, books, watch television and play chess etc.

[2] An African-American screenwriter woman, Maisha Yearwood, who identified herself as butch lesbian, was detained in 2009 after her arrest at the airport for drug possession.

[3] In 2015, a trans woman claimed that she was subject to forced search and harassment by law enforcement officers during her visit to the prison.

An LGBT activist, who went to the prison the same year to visit an inmate, reported that she was denied a body search in the security line for females and was directed to a check by male guards because of her trans women identity.

[4] A prison riot attempt occurred on August 1, 2016, orchestrated by a group of inmates affiliated with the illegal Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C).

Following the investigation by the public prosecutor, the prison doctor, the medical assistant and two female guards were arrested for leading to a chaos, misconduct and instigation.