Marmara Prison
Marmara Prison (Turkish: Marmara Cezaevi) or officially Marmara Penitentiaries Campus (Turkish: Marmara Ceza İnfaz Kurumları Kampüsü) formerly Silivri Prison is a high-security state correctional institution complex in the Silivri district of Istanbul Province in Turkey. Established in 2008, it is the country's most modern and Europe's largest penal facility.
Main entrance to the Marmara Prison. | |
| Location | Silivri, Istanbul |
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| Coordinates | 41.08944°N 28.15358°E |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | L-type |
| Capacity | 10,904 as of 2008 |
| Opened | 2008 |
| Managed by | Directorate General of Penitentiaries, Ministry of Justice |
As of June 5, 2008, a total of 96,760 defendants and convicts were detained in Turkey. 11,148 of them were held in ten correctional facilities of closed and open type within Istanbul Province. Following the opening of Silivri Prison, which has a capacity of nearly 11,000 inmates, the number of inmates in all Istanbul's prisons reached 15,910.
The prison complex is located 9 km (5.6 mi) west of Silivri on the highway E84, which connects the highway D.100 to the European Motorway O-3 (E80).
In 2022, the prison's name was changed to Marmara Prison.