Main entrance to the Silviri Prison.
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Location | Silivri, Istanbul |
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Status | Operational |
Security class | L-type |
Capacity | 10,904 as of 2008 |
Opened | 2008 |
Managed by | Directorate General of Penitentiaries, Ministry of Justice |
Silivri Prison (Turkish: Silivri Cezaevi) or officially Silivri Penitentiaries Campus (Turkish: Silivri Ceza İnfaz Kurumları Kampüsü) is a high-security state correctional institution complex in the Silivri district of Istanbul Province in Turkey. Established in 2008, it is the country's most modern and Europe's largest penal facility.
As of June 5, 2008, a total of 96,760 defendants and convicts were detained in Turkey. 11,148 of them were held in ten correctional facilities of closed and open type within Istanbul Province. Following the opening of Silivri Prison, which has a capacity of nearly 11,000 inmates, the number of inmates in all Istanbul's prisons reached 15,910.
The prison complex is located 9 km (5.6 mi) west of Silivri on the highway , which connects the highway to the European Motorway ().