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The fire prison in Hanoi was built by France in 1896 as the Maison Centrale where political prisoners were detained. Over 2,000 people were detained here only in the first half of the 1950 years with bad living conditions.
During the Vietnam War, the fire furnace was the prisoner of American pilots who were captured by the Vietnamese in a ridiculed manner, "Hanoi jail". American ambassador to Vietnam, Mr Dougglas Peterson, and 2008 US presidential candidate John McCain are popular prisoners here.