Exploring Hoa Lo Prison - Maison Centrale "Hanoi Hilton"

Hoa Lo Prison (or know as Maison Centrale "Hanoi Hilton") in downtown Hanoi has a particularly grim history. This is a place of brutality. A place of torture. It's the hell no-one wants to stay in.

This was a jail built by the French colonial government; its first prisoners arrived in 1899. The French kept mainly political prisoners here along with those awaiting sentencing at the nearby Court of Justice.

Hoa Lo Prison, after all, is a place best known in the West as one of the prisons where American pilots who had been shot down and captured were kept as prisoners of war. John McCain was held here at various times during his five and a half years.

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