Palmasola is a "prison town" in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It holds about 3000 prisoners. While the perimeter is guarded to keep prisoners from exiting, the guards exercise minimal control over the activities prisoners conduct within the walls. Prisoners of Palmasola have created an organization called the Disciplina to oversee some affairs. Children as well as adults are held there.

Trivia

• The TV show Prison Break
  Prison Break
  Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, that was broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company for four seasons, from 2005 until 2009. The series revolves around two brothers; one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an...
  
  features a prison called Sona that like Palmasola, is run by the prisoners.

Sources

• Gutsch, Jochen-Martin, "Im Labyrinth der Unordnung" Der Spiegel 5 December 2005, pp. 144–50.
• Bolivia's Prison Children, BBC News (electronic source) 16 November 2005.