The Taipei Prison, Agency of Corrections, Ministry of Justice (Chinese: 法務部矯正署臺北監獄; pinyin: Fǎwùbù Jiǎozhèngshǔ Táiběi Jiānyù, Nickname: 北監/北监 Běijiān) is a prison located in Guishan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan,[1] under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice.
It was rebuilt in an area southeast of Taihoku City (modern-day Taipei) in 1902; this is the current Ai Guo East Road.
Allied POW's were held here during the war; on 19 June 1945 fourteen US Army and Navy airmen were executed at Taihoku Prison in the early morning.
The Ministry of Judicial Administration sold the previous site and bought 19.6422-hectare (48.537-acre) of land in Guishan so a new facility could begin construction at the end of 1958.
[3] Former President Chen Shui-bian was incarcerated for a 19-year sentence at the Taipei Prison as Inmate 1020.