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The most famous site in this prison are the "tiger cages" (chuồng cọp). The French tiger cages cover an area of 5.475 m 2, within which each cell occupies 1.408 m 2, solariums occupy 1.873 m 2, and other spaces occupy 2.194 m 2. The prison includes 120 cells. The prison was closed after the end of the Vietnam War and opened for visitors ...
The French imprisoned him in one of the "tiger cage" cells on the prison located on the island of Poulo Condore (modern Côn Sơn Island) in the South China Sea. Poulo Condore was regarded as the harshest prison in all of French Indochina. [5] During his time in the "tiger cage", Thọ suffered from hunger, heat, and humiliation.
The prison was built in 1949–1950 by French colonialists as a place to detain political dissidents. During the Vietnam War, it was used for the detention of captured Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. The prison covered an area of 40,000 square metres (0.015 sq mi).
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In Lifetime’s “Jailbreak Lovers,” a woman finds a sense of escape from a lonely marriage with an inmate at the correctional facility where she brings dogs to be rehabilitated. But that sense ...
[2] [6] Luce used a hand-drawn map to find a secret door to an area where over 500 starving and tortured men and women were shackled in what were known as "tiger cages" under grates in a walkway. [2] The prisoners were neglected, sitting in diarrhea and with sores around their ankles cut by their shackles.
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