Vietnam Closes Detention Centre Number Five
After years of campaigning by sex workers, the infamous Detention Centre Number Five is closed down.
Although not officially a prison, Detention Centre Number 05 was the centre where drug users and sex workers were sent for anywhere between three months and two years after they were arrested for the “crime” of using drugs or doing sex work.
Supposedly a ‘merciful’ alternative to prison where new skills and professions could be learned, in practice conditions involved excessive hours of work and inadequate food, sanitation and medical care.