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Control Units and Democratic Repression in Chile
Loaded on July 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1993, page 16
In December of 1992 the Chilean government began building an "anti terrorist" prison which is part of that country's new policy in the so called "struggle against violent extremism." This new prison will have a capacity to hold more than one hundred of the so called "dangerous prisoners," who will …
Filed under:
Political Prisoners,
Prisoners-International,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Chile.
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