{{Short description|Prison in Uiwang, South Korea}} {{Infobox prison | name = Seoul Detention Center | pushpin_map = South Korea | pushpin_label = Seoul Detention Center | location = Uiwang | status = Operational | classification = Detention Center | population = 1500 (in medical section, 1990 report) | population_as_of = 1990 | opened = July 1967 | managed_by = Korea Correctional Service | city = Uiwang | state = Gyeonggi Province | country = South Korea | embedded = }} The '''Seoul Detention Center''' ({{Langx|ko|서울구치소}}; Hanja: 서울拘置所, alternatively '''Seoul Prison''')<ref name="Yi2000">{{cite book|author=Hŭi-ho Yi|title=My love, my country|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rxAEAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies, University of Southern California|isbn=978-1-884445-34-7|page=78}}</ref> is a prison in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea,<ref name="Ji-young2014">{{cite book|author=Gong Ji-young|title=Our Happy Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nVNvAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA180|date=1 July 2014|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4767-3047-9|pages=180}}</ref> operated by the Korea Correctional Service.
==History== The Detention Center was completed in July 1967.<ref>{{cite book|title=Resource Material Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WV6wnNCRy94C|date=December 2011|publisher=UNAFEI|page=16}}</ref>
According to a 1992 report by the Lawyers for Democratic Society, in 1990 the Detention Center had 1,500 prisoners in the medical section with only one full-time doctor, and prisoners frequently lacked necessary medical treatments.<ref name="Shin2014">{{cite book|author=Youngtae Shin|title=Protest Politics and the Democratization of South Korea: Strategies and Roles of Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=njKaBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA115|date=20 November 2014|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-9026-5|pages=115}}</ref>
==Operations== The Center houses an execution chamber.<ref name="Bloomberg">{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-22/samsung-leader-s-prison-life-no-smartphone-cannibal-neighbor |publisher=Bloomberg News |quote=Lee is at the Seoul Detention Center, located outside the industrial city of Anyang, south of Seoul. His fellow inmates include Park’s former chief of staff, Kim Ki-choon, and Yoo Young-chul, a self-confessed cannibal on death row for killing about 20 people. The compound houses an execution chamber. |title=Samsung Heir's New Office Is in Prison Housing a Serial Killer |first=Sam |last=Kim |date=February 22, 2017 |access-date=January 1, 2018}}</ref>
==Notable prisoners== ===Current=== * Han Duck-soo: Former acting South Korean president.<ref>{{cite web |title=(4th LD) Ex-PM Han sentenced to 23 yrs in prison for playing key role in insurrection |url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20260121001254315 |website=Yonhap News Agency|date=21 January 2026 |access-date=22 January 2026}}</ref> Serving a 23-year sentence. * Yoo Young-chul: South Korean serial killer.<ref name="Bloomberg"/> Sentenced to death on December 13, 2004, awaiting execution. * Yoon Suk Yeol: Former South Korean president.<ref>{{cite web |title=South Korea ex-leader Yoon returns to jail as court grants warrant |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-former-president-yoon-attend-hearing-detention-warrant-2025-07-09/ |website=Reuters |access-date=10 July 2025}}</ref> Serving a life sentence plus five years.
===Former=== * Roh Tae-woo: Former South Korean president<ref>{{cite book|title=Daily Report: East Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rmI1R2qYHKUC|year=1995|publisher=The Service|page=42}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Asian Survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BE0qAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=University of California Press|page=56}}</ref> *Lee Jae-yong: Vice Chairman of Samsung Group<ref name="Rein2017">{{cite book|author=Shaun Rein|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c2ZCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26|title=The War for China's Wallet: Profiting from the New World Order|date=4 December 2017|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|isbn=978-1-5015-0761-8|pages=26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Tewari|first=Suranjana|date=August 13, 2021|title=Lee Jae-yong: Samsung heir released from prison on parole|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58196575|access-date=September 4, 2021|website=BBC}}</ref> * Park Geun-hye: Former president of South Korea who was impeached and sentenced to prison for bribery, abuse of power, and other offenses.<ref>{{cite news |quote=Park, who was awaiting the ruling at a room of the Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office, was taken to the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, soon after the decision was announced. Park -- in prison garb -- is expected to travel back and forth to the prosecutors' office for additional questioning before being formally indicted. |first=Si-soo |last=Park |date=March 31, 2017 |access-date=April 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401040413/https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2017/03/251_226702.html |archive-date=April 1, 2017 |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2017/03/251_226702.html |newspaper=The Korea Times |title=PARK GEUN-HYE ARRESTED}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/03/31/ousted-south-korean-leader-goes-from-presidential-palace-to-solitary-cell.html |first=Tong-Hyung |last=Kim |publisher=The Associated Press via The Toronto Star |title=Ousted South Korean leader goes from presidential palace to solitary cell |date=March 31, 2017 |access-date=April 1, 2017 |quote=Park Geun-hye entered the Seoul Detention Center in a black sedan before dawn Friday after a court approved her arrest on corruption allegations.}}</ref> * Kang Chang-gu: Serial killer, executed on April 17, 1990. * Oen Bo-hyun: Spree killer, executed on November 2, 1995. * Six members of the Chijon family, executed on November 2, 1995.
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