GREECE: Posh Prison

Serving time in style

With impenitent nostalgia for their heyday, the prisoners still address one another by their former titles, such as "President" and "Minister." Their cells are equipped with air conditioners, refrigerators and TV sets. Among their favorite forms of exercise: regular tennis matches, played on a well-kept court. Such is the style of life to which deposed Strongman George Papadopoulos and members of the former Greek military junta have become accustomed inside Athens' Korydallos prison, where they have been serving sentences since 1975. Details of the systematic coddling of the...

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