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New Iraq Reconstruction Funds Devoted Solely to Prisons

HeadlineMar 02, 2006

In other news, the State Department quietly announced this week it has requested $100 million dollars for Iraqi reconstruction — all of it for prisons. The Bush administration initially promised $20 billion dollars to reconstruct Iraqi infrastructure. But much of the money has been diverted to security. State Department Iraq coordinator James Jeffrey said the $100 million dollar prison project was the lone new reconstruction effort the US government will undertake over the next year.

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