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58: 264: 191: 216:) 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. They were found guilty of "indiscriminate bombing" of civilians of Taiwan. Their remains were cremated and their ashes placed a local shrine. The prison received its current name, 173:
It can hold up to 2,705 prisoners. It houses criminals who have committed serious crimes and repeat criminals from northern Taiwan who are sentenced to at least ten years in prison. Taipei Prison houses foreign prisoners. Three branch prisons of Taipei Prison, Taipei Detention Center,
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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. On October 11, 1961 the groundbreaking occurred and was completed at the end of December 1962. On January 11, 1963, on
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The prison was originally established in 1895 as the Taihoku Penalty Institute
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Detention Center, hold prisoners with sentences of less than five years each.
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was incarcerated for a 19-year sentence at the Taipei Prison as Inmate 1020.
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Taipei Prison, Agency of Corrections, Ministry of Justice
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24°59′42″N 121°20′17″E / 24.9950°N 121.3380°E / 24.9950; 121.3380

Guishan
Taoyuan City
Taiwan
www.tpp.moj.gov.tw
Chinese
pinyin
prison
Guishan District
Taoyuan City
Taiwan
Ministry of Justice
Shilin
Sindian

Qing Dynasty
Taipei
Republic of China
Imperial Japan
Ministry of Judicial Administration
Judicial Day
President
Chen Shui-bian
Taiwan portal
Remains of Taipei prison walls


Chen Shui-bian now prisoner No. 1020
Taipei Times

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