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Colorado Officials Lead Efforts to Modernize Afghan Prisons

Loaded on May 15, 2011 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News May, 2011, page 42
Filed under: International, Prisoners-International. Locations: Afghanistan, Colorado.
Bill Zalman is the leader of a team of prison officials from Colorado that has been tapped to help train the wardens of Afghanistan’s prisons in modern correctional practices.
The head of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David T. Johnson, selected ...

 

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