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| Iraq |
| Crystal meth and crowded jails: Problems mount in Iraqi oil city |
| 2019-04-10 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The southern Iraqi city of Basra is struggling to cope with a growing drug problem that has overcrowded prisons and strained police resources, only months after violent protests over poor municipal services. Basra’s prison system is clogged up and creaking. On a recent day in one cop shoppe, Rooters news hounds saw about 150 men, their heads shaved, squatting in two small, cramped holding cells. Arrests of drug users and dealers have shot up in the past year, further stretching prison services and police in a sign that the problems with municipal resources that prompted protests in Basra last summer have not gone away. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Crystal meth is cheap to make, cheap to get and a hard habit to break. Sitting around all day listening to clerics will cure 'em, you betcha. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-04-10 12:02 |
| #1 Think of the savings in food |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-04-10 10:59 |