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| Location | Burrel,  Albania |
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| Coordinates | 41°36′24″N 20°0′46″E / 41.60667°N 20.01278°E |
| Status | Active |
| Security class | High Security |
| Capacity | 190 |
| Population | 148 (as of April 2013) |
| Opened | 1938, 1997 reopened |
| Closed | 1992 - 1997 |
| Managed by | Ministry of Justice, Albania |
| Director | Demir Cupi |
Burrel Prison (Albanian: Burgu i Burrelit) is a high security prison located outside the town of Burrel, in northeastern Albania at the District Police Station in Mat with a maximum capacity of 198 inmates. In 2011 the prison housed 182 inmates and employed 120 corrections officers. The one-story structure is divided into three areas covering 21,000 square meters.[1]
Burrel Prison closed in 1992 after the Democratic Party of Albania deposed the Party of Labour of Albania. The prison was reopened in 1997 and is one of Albania's 21 prisons active today, one of five that houses prisoners sentenced for life, and one of only two that houses prisoners convicted for organized crime.[2][3] There has been a movement by some activists to close the prison and make it the site of a memorial to those tortured and killed there between 1944 and 1992.[4]
In May 2013, the Director of Burrel Prison, Demir Çupi, was suspended after an incident involving a prisoner, Zeneli, who was granted a 5-day leave to visit his wife in Kukes but did not return to the prison. This was the third such incident in 2013.[5]
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