has housed countless political prisoners, including opponents of the late serbian president slobodan milosevic. many were still there when milosevic himself was incarcerated here in 2001, while awaiting trial for corruption and war crimes. today it houses some of the nation's most dangerous criminals. including the assassin of a former serbian prime minister. >> translator: they have committed all kinds of criminal offenses. basically every criminal offense on the books. these include organized crimes, war crime and other serious criminal offenses such as homicide. >> like american prisons, cz faces the problems of overcrowding. but serbia incarcerates a much smaller portion of its citizens. one out of nearly every 700 versus one out of every 130 in the united states. >> at the moment, a total of 1,200 inmates are being held here which is 2 1/2 times more than the prison's actual capacity. >> while some parts of cz have been modernized, much of the prison shows signs of age of one especially haunting section is completely abandoned behind locked doors. the execution chamber. >> we went down pr

this was poetic justice reminiscent of how former serbian president and convicted war criminal slobodan milosevic had fell from power. the protesters would then storm the parliament building and declare the victory for the opposition. within 48 hours, a new government would be formed and arrests would be made across the capital, including of prime minister jukanovic. if the prime minister could not be captured, he would be killed. the coup plotters obviously wanted to create chaos and it appears they may have had someone in mind for the violence. ahead of the election, the montenegran opposition hired a u.s. company to provide services, including countersurveillance and planning to exact personnel from the montenegran capital around the time of the election. it is still unclear the precise nature of this outreach to the u.s. company by the montenegran opposition on what services the company may have ended up provided, if any. this is speculation. if i know the russians, american security personnel, some likely to have military or intelligence background on the ground during the coup in the monten