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United States, Britain Offer Training to “Improve” Prison Conditions in Afghanistan
Loaded on Feb. 4, 2015
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2015, page 30
Filed under:
Prisoners-International,
Political Prisoners (International).
Locations:
Afghanistan,
United Kingdom,
United States of America.
United States, Britain Offer Training to “Improve” Prison Conditions in Afghanistan
While attempting to liberate Afghanistan from the tyranny of the Taliban, the U.S. and Great Britain have given the Afghans incarceration-related tools and training, ostensibly to improve conditions in that nation’s prisons.
Since 2011, the U.S. State Department has ...
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