Among the notable inmates sentenced to capital punishment and executed were:[6] The prison facility was officially declared a building of historic interest which could not, for that reason, be demolished, extended, or altered without special permission.

[5] Altındağ Municipality restored the prison building to its original form and opened it to the public as a museum in July 2011.

[5][6] Documents relating to the 81-year history of the prison were limited to photographs from 1997 and plans from the restoration project carried out in 2000.

[1] Exhibition materials and other information needed to make up the museum were collected from the relatives of the inmates after due persuasion.

[1][6] Prominent politicians like Bülent Ecevit and Osman Bölükbaşı were interned in these wards, where their biographies are shown on the bunk beds.

Yelling of wardens and horrible screams of tortured prisoners in the isolation cells sound out of the loudspeakers while walking in the hallways.

[1] Clanging historic türkü (folk songs) and poems are heard reminding visitors of the era of tortures and executions.

[6] In the isolation cells and the Fourth Ward, there are twenty-two wax sculptures depicting inmates in different positions in their daily prison life.

[6] For an additional payment, visitors can be locked in this unit for fifteen minutes or one hour to better perceive the prison conditions.