Certainly. It's not unusual for any society to forget about an inmate while they're in prison. That's why our profession is called the forgotten keeper. Once they've gone through court, they tend to be forgotten until they're ready to be released again, and then it becomes a community concern. That's the point I was making.
That's not much different from the Afghan people. If someone has been convicted and put in prison, they're quite content to know they're in prison and that's the end of it.
With regard to some of my other statements—and I do have 28 years of experience—I would be personally naive, as a prison expert or adviser, to think that some of the complaints and allegations that come forward in our own Canadian prisons would not come forward in a country such as Afghanistan.
So that explains my statement.