• Prison in Chile are generally poor.[citation needed] Prisons often are overcrowded and antiquated, with substandard sanitary conditions. In December 2009...
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  • San Miguel Prison, Santiago Santiago Public Prison (closed), Santiago List of prisons in Anhui List of prisons in Beijing List of prisons in Chongqing...
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    Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica...
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    Villa Grimaldi (category Defunct prisons in Chile)
    more than 300 years in prison. For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the three-acre estate was a gathering place for many of Chile's artists and intellectuals...
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    community, but the prison is administered by the Chilean Gendarmerie, the national prison service, similar to the country's other prisons. In June and October...
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  • operation. In 2013, countries that were currently using private prisons or in the process of implementing such plans included Brazil, Chile, Jamaica, Japan...
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    Londres 38 (category Defunct prisons in Chile)
    Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. The facility is located in downtown Santiago, Chile, and was known in DINA's jargon by the code name Yucatán. This place served...
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  • "Inmates 'treated like animals' in Chilean prisons". Newint. December 6, 2012. Retrieved 2015-12-05. "Chile's worst prison fire kills 81 inmates". 9 December...
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    of the Prisons of Chile" (Guardias Especiales de las Prisiones de Chile) and was responsible for prisons, executions, and prisoner transport. In 1911,...
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  • Paul Schäfer (category German expatriates in Chile)
    underground for eight years, he spent the last five years of his life in prison in Chile. Schäfer was born the town of Troisdorf, near Bonn, Germany, to Anna...
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  • Prison in the Andes (Spanish: Penal Cordillera) is a 2023 Chilean-Brazilian drama film written and directed by Felipe Carmona in his directorial debut...
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    Prisioneros de Pisagua) was a concentration camp in Pisagua, Chile. An isolated location in northern Chile, Pisagua was used as a detention site for male...
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    of August, 3,054 minors were in prisons or detention centers (held separately from the adult population). Many prisons were antiquated and offered substandard...
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    Federal Bureau of Prisons. 2009. Retrieved May 14, 2009. Associated Press (November 24, 1986). "Copter Hijacked, 2 Freed From Prison in Rome". Los Angeles...
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  • Cuartel Simón Bolívar (category Defunct prisons in Chile)
    Barracks") was a facility used by the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), Chile's secret police during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. It functioned as...
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    El Manzano is a prison in the city of Concepción, Chile. After the 2010 Chile earthquake, a prison riot began following a failed escape attempt by inmates...
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  • Jailbreak Pact (category Films set in Chile)
    Jailbreak Pact (Spanish: Pacto de fuga) is a 2020 Chilean action thriller film directed by David Albala (in his directorial debut) who co-wrote the script...
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    tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or the Great Chilean earthquake (Gran terremoto de Chile) on 22 May 1960 was the most powerful earthquake ever...
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    José Domingo Cañas Memory House (category Defunct prisons in Chile)
    Directorate (DINA), located at 1367 José Domingo Cañas Street, in the Ñuñoa district of Santiago, Chile. Designated by the DINA as "Ollagüe Barracks," this was...
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    The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with...
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    Dignidad ('Dignity Colony') was an isolated colony established in post-World War II Chile by emigrant Germans which became notorious for the internment...
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    The 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto del 27F) occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February at 03:34:12 local...
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    Sodexo Justice Services (category Private prisons in the United Kingdom)
    transportation. Of these prisons, 34 were in France, 33 were in the Netherlands, and six or fewer were in each of Australia, Belgium, Chile, Sweden, Slovenia...
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    Tres Álamos (category Prisons in Chile)
    Tres Alamos was a political prison camp that operated during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. This enclosure was operational between...
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    republics of Peru and Chile over the sovereignty of an area at sea in the Pacific Ocean approximately 37,900 square kilometres (14,600 sq mi) in size. Peru contended...
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    Human rights abuses in Chile under Augusto Pinochet were the crimes against humanity, persecution of opponents, political repression, and state terrorism...
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    Christianity is the most widely professed religion in Chile, with Catholicism being its largest denomination. The country is secular and the freedom of...
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  • Indigenous peoples in Chile or Native Chileans form about 13% of the total population of Chile. According to the 2017 census, almost 2,200,000 people...
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    Cárcel Hill, Valparaíso (category Defunct prisons in Chile)
    Cárcel) is one of the 42 hills of Valparaíso, Chile. It is the site of the city's old infamous prison, which has now been turned into an urban cultural...
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  • Prostitution in Chile is legal, subject to regulation, but related activities such as keeping brothels and pimping are prohibited. Several hundred women...
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