• Originally designed to hold around 2,500 prisoners, the Presidio Modelo’s population quickly grew to more than 6,000 following the fall of Machado.
  • 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.
  • Presidio Modelo was one of my highlights of Cuba. ... Hi, Are there tours from Cayo Largo to the Presidio Modelo? If so, who runs them, how do we book?
  • Built between 1926 and 1928, the Presidio Modelo was designed to be a model prison by President-turned-Dictator Gerardo Machado.
  • Presidio Modelo was a former “model prison" of Panopticon design, located on the Isla de la Juventud in Cuba, built between 1926 and 1931, during the...
  • Presidio Modelo is a house of incarceration where the inmates are to be kept under constant surveillance by their goalers.
  • The Presidio Modelo was a "model prison" of Panopticon design, built on Isla de Pinos (now the Isla de la Juventud) in Cuba.
  • If you were living in Cuba during the 1920s, then I suspect Presidio Modelo was the last place you wanted to end up.
  • Taking a look at the wiki entry for Panopticon, we found references to Presidio Modelo in Cuba and get curious about the site.
  • It is not a commune for the amoral or a place where bandits dwell or honed their skills. It is a host island of the Presidio Modelo, Cuba’s panopticon prison.