🔒 Tilanqiao Prison

The Tilanqiao Prison, formerly known as the Ward Road Gaol or Shanghai Municipal Gaol, is a prison located in Qingpu, Shanghai. It was originally built in the foreign-controlled Shanghai International Settlement. It was then controlled by the occupying Japanese force during the Second World War and the Chinese Nationalist Government after its end. Following the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949, the People's Republic of China government assumed control of the prison, which has since been run by the Ministry of Public Security. Throughout the first forty or so years of its life it was the largest prison in the world and earned a reputation as the "Alcatraz of the Orient".