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    Can privately-run prisons work?
    The doorway is only big enough for one person to pass through.
    Small Picture | 2013-10-09 18:22
    • More humane prison
    More humane prison
    A meandering mountainside road to Somang Correctional Institution in Yeoju-gun, Gyeonggi Province, was tranquil and secluded.
    Small Picture | 2013-10-09 18:14
    • Can privately-run prisons work?
    Before they collapse
    The alleyways of Imun-dong, eastern Seoul are narrow and crooked. Houses built in the 1960s and 1970s showed rusty steel pipes and rotting wooden bars barely propping up slate roofs. Walls built with a mixture of concrete, cement and red bricks were cracked and tarnished.
    Small Picture | 2013-09-26 19:26
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