• The main entrance of San Pedro prison in 2024. San Pedro prison or El penal de San Pedro (Saint Peter's Prison) is the largest prison in La Paz...
  • A typical San Pedro prison tour consisted of a guide (usually a member of the strongest gang at the time) and a bodyguard taking tourists to the different cell...
  • And now, he’s organizing San Pedro prison tours – with the help of the jail governor, who he bribes with tourist dollars.
  • The thriving sense of community at San Pedro prison in La Paz, Bolivia, belies the dangers to which inmate families are exposed.
  • But there’s one attraction that’s a bit weird that would be both awesome and a bit scary to experience – that’s the San Pedro Prison in La Paz, Bolivia.
  • San Pedro’s notoriety mostly comes in that it is one of the few prisons that is essentially run by its inmates.
  • ⁠Nestled among the Andes in La Paz, Bolivia’s capital city, San Pedro is a self-governing prison where the inmates run everything.
  • Cárcel de San Pedro (San Pedro Prison) reached international fame in 2003 when Australian law graduate Rusty Young released his first novel, Marching...
  • 6. Learn About the Prison’s History: San Pedro Prison has a long and fascinating history, and visitors can learn about it by taking a tour or talking to the inmates.