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| Cambodian Prisons Will Be Most Crowded |
| By monstersandcritics.com |
| Published: 07/20/2010 |
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Phnom Penh - A Cambodian human rights group warned Monday that the country's prisons are on track to become the world's most overcrowded within a decade should the prison population continue to grow at its current rate. Cambodia's prisons are operating at an average overcapacity of 167 per cent with more than 13,300 prisoners in a system built to take 8,000, said the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, known by its French acronym LICADHO. 'Some of these prisons date back to the early 1900s, and are scarcely fit for habitation,' LICADHO said in its report. The organization said prisons were already full six years ago, and since then the prison population has grown by 14 per cent a year. Read More. |
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