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Unshackling an Afghan prison from old habits
By Toronto Star
Published: 10/04/2007

KANDAHAR–The Canadian corrections officer charged with helping improve Kandahar's Stone Age-like prison facility says she hears lots of complaints about bad water, poor hygiene and crowded cells.

But so far, no inmates at Sarposa provincial jail – home to 800 prisoners – have complained of physical abuse at the hands of their Afghan keepers, Linda Garwood Filbert said.

Garwood Filbert is a Corrections Canada officer on a year-long assignment in Kandahar to help bring prisons here up to international standards. words you want linked


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