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CO: Former DOC head working in Afghanstan says: "Our corrections system is the most effective human-rights tool we have in Afghanistan"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Colorado corrections experts bring modern prison programs to Afghanistan By Kirk Mitchell The Denver Post Posted: 10/03/2010 In Afghanistan, Colorado's Bill Zalman is leading a team of U.S. corrections experts who are training wardens of that nation's 33 regional prisons how to solve ancient problems with new tools and strategies. "Prison is prison the world around," Zalman said in a telephone interview from his office in Kabul. "What we offer is a modern-day corrections program." They teach their Afghan counterparts how fixing septic systems prevents disease and that teaching rug-weaving reduces prison violence. They also school them in defense tactics against an attack from outside the prison. Zalman's work in Afghanistan is part of an expanding role by Colorado corrections experts in teaching prison operators in small nations around the globe from Afghanistan to Morocco to Mexico how to safely hold and transport prisoners...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 04, 2010 (boomark / email).