Located 4 km (2.49 miles) away from the Canggu village,[5] the prison opened in 1979 and was built to hold 300 inmates.

[2][6] More than 90% of the prisoners are Indonesian and 78% were convicted on drug charges.

[1] Kerobakan Prison has a long and complicated history of riots and other violence involving prisoners and guards.

In December 2015, two inmates were killed because of a riot between rival gangs.

As a result of this, police transferred more than one hundred inmates to other local prisons.