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Human rights | 27.07.10 | 14:42

Criminal Conditions: Human rights activists alarmed at prison crowding

By Gayane Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Officials are concerned that prisons in Armenia are overcrowded, with double the number of prisoners they were made to hold, and are appealing to authorities to reform the parole system to grant amnesty.

This week a group of public observers held monitoring visits to nine detention centers where they found that in some prisons 20 inmates are kept in cells designed for eight. The overcrowding is believed to be a potential cause of increased violence and suicide.

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