Pollsmoor Prison (Cape Town)

South Africa / Western Cape / Cape Town
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Supermax facility which held inmates like Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathadra, Walter Sisulu and various ther political inmates. It has Womans prison - **European Mens Prison - a Medium Security Prison and countless programs to help rehabilitate inmates.

Nelson Mandela describes Pollsmoor Prison as "the truth of Oscar Wilde's haunting line about the tent of blue that prisoners call the sky."

** During my employment over there (1980`s) - the prisons were not integrated.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollsmoor_Prison
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Coordinates:   34°4'8"S   18°26'25"E
This article was last modified 11 years ago