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Dhaka, June 20 (IANS) Bangladesh’s prisons have increasingly deteriorated into a deeply discriminatory state mechanism. Within this system, imprisonment for those with wealth and power translates into a “life of pampered luxury” while for ordinary, poor citizens, it amounts to a “living hell”. Although institutional operations across the country’s 72 prisons are carried out under the humane and reformist slogan ‘not a jail, but a correction centre’, the reality on the ground tells a diff…