Amid overcrowding, inmates build new prison
Even within the country’s notoriously overcrowded prison system, inmates in this northern province live in particularly harsh conditions. Approximately 120 prisoners, including 16 women and three children, are held in four cells in the Oddar Meanchey provincial police headquarters. “In one cell we keep 20 or more people,” said a guard at the prison last week. “Yes it’s crowded, because it’s not a real prison.” Sharon Critoph, prison project consultant at rights group Licadho, calls the current conditions for prisoners in Oddar Meanchey “absolutely appalling.” …
Lauren Crothers and Ouch Sony
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