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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Turkey: Fast Growing Incarceration Rate To Blame For Deadly Prison Fire? | EurasiaNet.org

Turkey: Fast Growing Incarceration Rate To Blame For Deadly Prison Fire?
June 19, 2012 - 4:49pm, by Yigal Schleifer

The Turko-file
Turkish Domestic Politics
Turkish Judicial System

A prison fire last week that led to the death of 13 inmates and a string of subsequent fires -- all set by prisoners protesting the conditions they are living under -- have led to a debate about the state of Turkey's jails and just why the country has such a fast-growing prison population.

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