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Remetinec prison (officially Prison in Zagreb, Croatian : Zatvor u Zagrebu) is a closed-type prison located in the Remetinec neighborhood of Zagreb, Croatia.
The prison's capacity is 560 inmates, making it the largest prison in Croatia. [1] [2] In July 2012 it housed 904 prisoners and detainees, [3] up from 850 in March 2009. [1] The prison's overcrowding problem is also a major problem of the Croatian prison system in general. [4] [5] Poor living conditions led to a prisoners' hunger strike in May 2008. [6] A planned expansion that will add 340 beds is financed by the Council of Europe Development Bank, and was in documentation stage as of June 2010 [update] . [7]