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/ 19 December 2004

Four weeks of trauma in a Jamaican jail

As a lawyer, I have had my fair share of international prison experiences. Penal conditions in Jamaica are no better or worse than many of the other poor countries I have visited, but for an English teenager stupid or naive enough to become a victim of today’s drug culture, they are terrifyingly alien.

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