El Dorado, Venezuela
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It is on the road to Brazil. El Dorado has a small airport, Template:Comma separated entries.
History
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Prison
The town has a prison, the Centro Penitenciario de Oriente El Dorado. The Venezuelan prison system is generally overcrowded,[1] and El Dorado prison has been described in the British press as "notorious".[2][3] In 2015 the Venezuelan press reported the completion of a stage in a project to expand the prison, providing new facilities for the rehabilitation of offenders.[4]
Prisoners
- Henri Charrière. The prison is mentioned in the book Papillon.[3] While the accuracy of the book has been questioned, it is not disputed that its author, Henri Charrière, was imprisoned in Venezuela in the 1940s,[5] an epoch when the prisoners were assigned to mobile detention camps.
See also
References
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External links
- Sifontes Official Web SiteScript error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:In lang