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.
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] The Center houses an execution chamber.
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