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The Iranian Prison System and the Relationship Between the Prisoner and the Outsiders

The kind of prison in which he is is a financial prison. This is for depth so it's quite different with other kinds of prison and the rules have nothing to do but there are this network of charities who can help people solving their problems, paying up their debt and so being released. If a person doesn't pay off his depth the creditor can send him to jail until when he can pay off the debt and he also has this possibility to forgive them to consent to accept that he can come out. It all depends on the first agreement between the two persons.

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