PROGRESS AFTER a fashion I suppose. A newly refurbished prison opened in Iraq.

Though the prison is more livable than Saddam's squalid dungeons and torture chambers, inmates will sleep on plywood mattresses cushioned only by a blanket and eat food that is nutritious but far from scrumptious.

There won't be air conditioning, though there will be the fans denied prewar inmates, along with proper toilets instead of buckets or holes in the ground.

"They're going to be fed and looked after, but it's not going to be too nice," said Maj. Simon Wilson, a military police commander. "They're not going to want to come back."

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