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Friday, February 28, 2014

Greece's Korydallos prison: a window on the country's recent past

With each passing generation, the squalid and overcrowded maximum-security Korydallos prison on the outskirts of Athens welcomes a new breed of high-profile criminal -- its roll-call of inmates serving as a window on Greece's tumultuous recent past. From members of the brutal military junta that ruled the country half a century ago, to left-wing rebels and neo-Nazi thugs -- Korydallos has seen ...

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