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The Presidio Modelo was a "model prison" with panopticon design, built on the Isla de Pinos ("Isle of Pines"), now the Isla de la Juventud ("Isle of Youth"), in Cuba. It is located in the suburban quarter of Chacón, Nueva Gerona .
The Presidio Modelo was erected between 1926 and 1931. The model panopticon penitentiary is on the outskirts of Nueva Gerona. [ 13 ] It was the place where, after leading a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in July 1953, Fidel Castro , along with his brother Raúl Castro , was imprisoned by the regime of Fulgencio Batista from 1953 to 1955.
Nueva Gerona is located by the coast, in the north-eastern area of the island, between the hills of Caballos and Casas.It is crossed by the river Río Las Casas, which provides a navigable waterway to the Caribbean Sea.
Prison Presidio Modelo on the Isle of Pines where the Castro brothers were incarcerated. The block where they and the other Moncadistas were imprisoned is now a museum. (Photo taken in December 2005.) Castro was brought before a different court on 16 October 1953 for sentencing.
The disused Presidio Modelo in Cuba is a museum as of 2005. Inside one of the buildings of the Presidio Modelo Bentham's proposal for a panopticon prison met with great interest among British government officials not only because it incorporated the pleasure-pain principle developed by the materialist philosopher Thomas Hobbes , but also ...
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