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Fresh Start in Nicaragua

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First published online March, 1990

Fresh Start in Nicaragua

Volume 37, Issue 1

https://doi.org/10.1177/026455059003700107

Abstract

When the Sandinistas took power after the 1979 revolution, there was no prison system in Nicaragua. Bob Blatchford, taking time out from Nottinghamshire Probation Service to help with the coffee harvest, reports on his visit to the new Matagalpa regional penitentiary.

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