"A lot of them are scared to go" to Iraqi prisons, says Sgt 1st Class Penny Barber, a US military detainee specialist working in Diyala.

“他们中的许多人怀着万分惊恐的心情走进”伊拉克监狱，一位在迪亚拉省工作的美军羁押者专家，一等中士宾尼·巴尔博表示。

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"Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons" (John Ruskin).

“我们来改善学校吧，那样监狱几乎就不需要改善了”(约翰·罗斯金)。

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He has spent the last seven months in solitary confinement – a punishment that causes many prisoners to go mad and which the US National Commission on Prisons called “torturous.”

他已经被单独监禁了七个月——这种惩罚导致许多被关押者发疯，美国国家监狱委员会称之为“折磨”。

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One allegation is that the US maintains secret prisons on European soil.

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Correspondents say he is unwilling to grant US soldiers immunity from prosecution and is unhappy that Afghans are still being held in US-run military prisons on Afghan soil.

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In the US, criminals are punished in prisons for more serious crimes and in jails for lesser offences.

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