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Prison tourism

An article in today's Clarín discusses an unusual tourist attraction in Latvia: The Karosta Prison. The prison was built in 1900 and functioned as a military prison under Latvian, Nazi and Soviet regimes. After it closed down there were plans to demolish it, but it was saved by its neighbors and then turned into a tourist attraction. Now you can take tours of the prison, and even stay there for one or more nights and experience what real prison conditions were like. These come complete with freezing cells and cold water, bad food and autocratic guards. Those disobeying, can be punished by being put on solitary with no food or water, or being made to perform exhausting physical excersises. Apparently, this is a turn on for some tourists.

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