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Liberia's Prisons Need 'Immediate Improvement' - Amnesty Report

A new report by the rights group, Amnesty International, has described conditions in four of Liberia's 15 prison facilities as appalling. But the country's Assistant Minister of Justice for Corrections, Hillary Siakor-Sirleaf, contested many of the document's highlights, saying they were "magnified" and "not substantiated".
Prison Conditions in Liberia

PHOTO ESSAYS: Prison Conditions in Liberia

The human rights group, Amnesty International, says conditions in some Liberian prisons are so poor that they violate basic human rights. Amnesty illustrated a report it published on the situation ...

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