• The prisons in Estonia are operated by the Estonian Department of Prisons, which currently maintains three prisons around the country: Tallinn Prison, Tartu...
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  • San Miguel Prison, Santiago Santiago Public Prison (closed), Santiago List of prisons in Anhui List of prisons in Beijing List of prisons in Chongqing...
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    Jaanson became the new director of the Central Prison. Prisons became the responsibility of the Prisons’ Administration of the People’s Commissariat for...
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    Rummu quarry (category Prisons in Estonia)
    the territory of the former Rummu prison] (in Estonian). Postimees. Retrieved 2016-08-22. "Rummu Underwater Prisons". Atlas Obscura. 2017. Retrieved 2018-11-28...
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    HIV-themed project. The prison holds several war criminals including Dragomir Milošević, Milan Martić and Milan Lukić. Prisons in Estonia Brooke Donald (2000-04-20)...
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    to prison personnel, and for the creation of high security enclosures. Estonia currently maintains five prisons around the country: Harku Prison, Murru...
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    Murru Prison (Estonian: Murru vangla) was a prison located in Rummu, Harju County, in Northern Estonia. The prison was established in 1938. Until 1970s...
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    following duties and structures: Prisons (Estonian Department of Prisons) The Prosecutor's Office Courts Patent Office Estonian Competition Authority Data Protection...
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  • Estonia declared neutrality at the outbreak of World War II (1939–1945), but the country was repeatedly contested, invaded and occupied, first by the...
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    Tallinn Prison (Estonian: Tallinna vangla) is an Estonian prison, which is located at Soodevahe, Rae Parish, Harju County. Previously the prison was located...
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    Fat Margaret (category Prisons in Estonia)
    Fat Margaret (Estonian: Paks Margareeta, German: Dicke Margarethe) is a tower in Tallinn, Estonia. Nowadays, the tower is home to Estonian Maritime Museum...
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  • Harku Prison (Estonian: Harku vangla) was an Estonian prison. The prison was located in Harku, Harju County. The prison was established in 1926. 1965 the...
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    The KGB Prison Cells (Estonian: KGB Vangikongid) are former prison cells which were used by the KGB in Tallinn, Estonia. The building, known as Pagari...
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    operated by the Estonian Department of Prisons. A 150-bed house of detention, under the control of the national police, augments the prison facility. To...
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    men's prisons and that of women's prisons. Male prisons tend to have higher, or more severe, security levels/classifications than female prisons. This...
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    Harku (redirect from Harku, Estonia)
    in 1242 as Harkua. The only women's prison in Estonia Harku Prison is located in Harku. Politician Edgar Savisaar (1950–2022) was born in the prison....
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    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Estonia have advanced significantly over the course of the last few decades, especially since...
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    The history of Estonia forms a part of the history of Europe. Humans settled in the region of Estonia near the end of the last glacial era, beginning from...
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    The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with...
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  • Eston Kohver (category Estonia–Russia relations)
    political rift in Estonia–Russia relations. In Russia, Kohver was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 15 years in prison, but in September 2015 was...
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    The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (Estonian SSR), Soviet Estonia, or simply Estonia, was a union republic of the Soviet Union (USSR), covering the...
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    established on 2 February 1920 after the Estonian War of Independence ended in Estonian victory with Russia recognizing Estonia's sovereignty and renounced any and...
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  • Jews (more than 10% of the Estonian Jewish population) were deported, mostly to Kirov Oblast, Novosibirsk Oblast or to prisons. [citation needed] Only 4...
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    Jews in Estonia starts with reports of the presence of individual Jews in what is now Estonia from as early as the 14th century. Jews were settled in Estonia...
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    Johannes-Andreas Hanni (category 1982 crimes in Estonia)
    Estonian serial killer who murdered three people in 1982 with the aid of his wife Pille. Johannes-Andreas Hanni was born in Valga in Soviet Estonia,...
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    in Estonia (Estonian: Katoliku kirik Eestis) is the national branch of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome...
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    The Estonian government-in-exile was the formally declared governmental authority of the Republic of Estonia in exile, existing from 1944 until the reestablishment...
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    The Estonia–Russia border is the international border between the Republic of Estonia (EU and NATO member) and the Russian Federation (CIS and CSTO member)...
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  • Imre Arakas (category Fugitives wanted by Estonia)
    years in jail, mostly in a high-security Russian facility. After release from prison he joined an Estonian organised crime gang and took part in a feud...
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    remains the largest of Moscow's remand prisons. Overcrowding is an ongoing problem. The first references to Butyrka prison may be traced back to the 17th century...
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