All of the prisons I have visited in SVK are housed in really old facilities, most of them built during the communist years. For the most part they do a decent job of maintaining these facilities so that they are at least habitable. The prison we visited today, Dubnica, was the worst of the facilities Ive seen as the buildings were quite dilapidated and generally in very poor condition. Having heard the stories, its eerie walking around these places knowing that they used to confine many innocent people whom the goverment didnt like for one reason or another. There are very real stories of horrible treatment and even cases where people went in and were never seen again.