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.
History
editThe 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]
Operations
editThe Center houses an execution chamber.[5]
Notable prisoners
editCurrent
edit- Yoo Young-chul: South Korean serial killer.[5] Sentenced to death in 2004, awaiting execution.
Former
edit- Former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo[6][7]
- Lee Jae-yong: Vice Chairman of Samsung Group[8][9]
- Park Geun-hye: Former president of South Korea who was impeached and sentenced to prison for bribery, abuse of power, and other offenses.[10][11]
- Kang Chang-gu: Serial killer, executed on April 17, 1990.
- Oen Bo-hyun: Spree killer, executed on November 2, 1995.
- Six members of the Chijon family, executed on November 2, 1995.
References
edit- ^ Hŭi-ho Yi (2000). My love, my country. Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies, University of Southern California. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-884445-34-7.
- ^ Gong Ji-young (1 July 2014). Our Happy Time. Simon and Schuster. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-4767-3047-9.
- ^ Resource Material Series. UNAFEI. December 2011. p. 16.
- ^ Youngtae Shin (20 November 2014). Protest Politics and the Democratization of South Korea: Strategies and Roles of Women. Lexington Books. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-7391-9026-5.
- ^ a b Kim, Sam (February 22, 2017). "Samsung Heir's New Office Is in Prison Housing a Serial Killer". Bloomberg News. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
Lee is at the Seoul Detention Center, located outside the industrial city of Anyang, south of Seoul. His fellow inmates include Park's former chief of staff, Kim Ki-choon, and Yoo Young-chul, a self-confessed cannibal on death row for killing about 20 people. The compound houses an execution chamber.
- ^ Daily Report: East Asia. The Service. 1995. p. 42.
- ^ Asian Survey. University of California Press. 1996. p. 56.
- ^ Shaun Rein (4 December 2017). The War for China's Wallet: Profiting from the New World Order. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-5015-0761-8.
- ^ Tewari, Suranjana (August 13, 2021). "Lee Jae-yong: Samsung heir released from prison on parole". BBC. Retrieved September 4, 2021.
- ^ Park, Si-soo (March 31, 2017). "PARK GEUN-HYE ARRESTED". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on April 1, 2017. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
Park, who was awaiting the ruling at a room of the Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office, was taken to the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, soon after the decision was announced. Park -- in prison garb -- is expected to travel back and forth to the prosecutors' office for additional questioning before being formally indicted.
- ^ Kim, Tong-Hyung (March 31, 2017). "Ousted South Korean leader goes from presidential palace to solitary cell". The Associated Press via The Toronto Star. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
Park Geun-hye entered the Seoul Detention Center in a black sedan before dawn Friday after a court approved her arrest on corruption allegations.