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About Fangslet

Horsens Statsfangsel, previously called Horsens Straffeanstalt, is a former prison in Horsens, Denmark. Today it's far a criminal offense and prison museum below the name Horsens Prison Museum, a conference and business facility, and a live performance venue wherein bands together with Metallica have played.Following expansions in 2016, it is the biggest jail museum in the world. It won the 2015 InAVation award as exceptional traffic attraction and the 2016 Museums + Heritage award as great foreign museum.

The jail become commissioned in 1853 and became closed in 2006 whilst the remaining closing inmates were moved to the State Prison of East Jutland at Enner Mark, west of Horsens. When constructed, the jail was intended for prisoners serving long prison sentences. The prisoners spend the nights of their cells, during the day prisoners worked within the prison's "workshops" and at some stage in the evenings, they moved freely inside the wards.

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