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The Baghdad Central Prison formerly known as Abu Ghraib prison (Arabic: سجن أبو غريب Sijn Abū Ghurayb; also Abu Ghuraib lit. ‘Father of Raven’ or ‘Place of Ravens’) is in Abu Ghraib an Iraqi city 32 km (20 mi) west of Baghdad. It was built by British contractors in the 1950s.Observers estimated that in 2001 the prison held as many as 15000 inmates.[citation needed]In 2002 Saddam Hussein’s government began an expansion project to add six new cellblocks to the prison.
