STATE PRISON SKOPLJE MACEDONIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000090001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794. of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT State Prison, Skopije, Macedonia
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 27 April 1953
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The Macedonian state prison, which is located near Skopije, has approximately,,
19500 male prisoners. Although the prisoners are supposed to be 20 years of
age or older, many of them appear to be younger. The warden of the prison is
a former workman.
2'. Living conditions in the prison' are good. The bread ration is sufficient, and
the prisoners are served meat twice a week.
3. The prisoners are obliged to work and are paid for their work. Some of the
prisoners work in the prison workshops and some work in the. fields. Part of
their pay is given to them in cash, part is sent-:to their families,, and part
is withheld so that they will have some capital when they leave prison.
The prison has a woodworking shop and a workshop where beds are made. The
products of the prison workshops are sold in a sales room of the prison.
The prisoners receive medical attention from a prisoner who is a doctor. During
the Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia, the doctor was mayor of Bitolj.
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