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ImagesImage 32: new prison in Sangyib area, mid 1997, viewed from the northwest© International Campaign for TibetThe official name of the prison, located across the street and a hundred metres south of Lhasa Prison, remains unknown. Reliable reports allege that it is a TAR level PSB Detention Centre intendedto play an important role in detaining and investigating persons suspected of political activity, especially in cases which police believe may be linked to Tibetans in exile. Some accounts, which TINhas not confirmed, claim that the new facility temporarily held some Drapchi prisoners in isolation after the May 1998 protests at Drapchi. By 1999 another, smaller new prison had been built adjacentto the one shown above, and an expansive new PAP training facility extended for several hundred metres westward.1 security personnel quarters (probably PAP) 5 staff residences2 new cell blocks (not yet complete in this image) 6 later location of gate into new PAP training facility3 main gate into compound 7 area occupied by new, separately walled prison facility by mid-19984 administrative offices 8 extreme east end of area occupied by large new training facility (probably PAP) by mid-1998123