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  2. Gorgona Island (Colombia) - Wikipedia

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    Gorgona functioned as a prison from 1959 until 1984 when it was turned into a National Natural Park. The island, noted for its many endemic species and unique ecosystems, was established as Gorgona Island National Park in 1985, in order to preserve its richly varied wildlife of the sub-tropical forest and the coral reefs offshore.

  3. Gorgona Agricultural Penal Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Gorgona Agricultural Penal Colony is an Italian prison farm located on the island of Gorgona in the Tuscan Archipelago. The island has a long history of being home to monastic communities , with the Gorgona Abbey being a prominent establishment on the island for most of the Middle Ages.

  4. Category:Prison islands - Wikipedia

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    Georges Island (Nova Scotia) Goli Otok; Gorgona (Italy) Gorgona Island (Colombia) Great Palm Island; Green Island, Taiwan ... Santo Stefano Island; Solovki prison camp;

  5. Penal colony - Wikipedia

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    Brazil had a prison on the island of Fernando de Noronha from 1938 to 1945. Gorgona Island in Colombia housed a state high-security prison from the 1950s. Convicts were dissuaded from escaping by the venomous snakes in the interior of the island and by the sharks patrolling the 30 km to the mainland.

  6. Today in history: 1992 - Colombia drug lord Pablo Escobar ...

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    On this day, July 22, 1992, President Cesar Gaviria of Colombia said that Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers, had escaped from the resort-like prison where he had ...

  7. Gorgona - Wikipedia

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    Gorgona (Italy), the northernmost island in the Tuscan Archipelago Gorgona Agricultural Penal Colony, penal colony located on the Italian Island; Gorgona (wine), Italian white wine made by the prisoners of the Gorgona Agricultural Penal Colony in partnership with the Frescobaldi family; Gorgona, a fictional planet; see Planets in science fiction

  8. Honduras wants to build West's only island prison colony and ...

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    Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador's unforgiving approach to ...

  9. Daniel Camargo Barbosa - Wikipedia

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    Even though it is believed that he raped and killed more than 80 girls in Colombia, Camargo was imprisoned in Colombia after being convicted of raping and killing a 9-year-old girl. He was initially sentenced to 30 years in prison, but this sentence was reduced to 25 years, and he was interned in the prison on Gorgona Island [3] on 24 December ...

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