• 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.
  • After riots became frequent during 1961, principally due to the staggering overcrowding of the cells, the Presidio Modelo was permanently closed in 1966.
  • Si vas a gerona, no puedes dejar de ir al presidio modelo, un lugar que aunque destruido, te hace pensar en como vivieron esos presos en pequeñas...
  • Presidio Modelo is currently in a state of disrepair and neglect, with its once-impressive buildings and walls crumbling and overgrown with vegetation.
  • Built between 1926 and 1928, the Presidio Modelo was designed to be a model prison by President-turned-Dictator Gerardo Machado.
  • After Fidel Castro’s revolutionary triumph in 1959, Presidio Modelo remained in operation.
  • The Presidio's most famous inmates, however, were Fidel Castro and the other Moncada rebels, who were imprisoned here from October 1953 to May 1955.
  • In 1967 Presidio Modelo was closed and all the prisoners were transferred elsewhere.
  • Presidio Modelo (Model Prison) was a former “model prison” of Panopticon design, located on the Isla de la Juventud in Cuba, built between 1926 and 1931...
  • Anyone that spoke out against the regime received a one-way ticket to Presidio Modelo.