However, critics of the private prosecution described the jail term as "deeply concerning, inappropriate and disproportionate".
Ms. Billingsley described the jail as new, well lighted and well ventilated, but Mr. Jackson said his wife was held in a "dingy hole that is damp".
Karzai has always argued that hundreds were innocent, and described the jail as a "Taliban-producing factory" where men were brutalised until they turned against their country.
In October posts began appearing on Mr. Avary's Twitter account in which he described his jail setting ("The building is an imposing example of the Brutalist architectural movement," he wrote) and details of his furlough program.
While it was active it housed some of Victoria's most notorious prisoners, including Ronald Ryan, the last man to be executed in Australia, and Chopper Read, who famously had his ears sliced off in an attempt to escape and described the jail as "a blood-soaked mental hospital of violence and more violence".
Mr Karzai has described the jail as a "Taliban-making factory".
Two members of Russian all-female punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, have been sent to prison camps in Perm and Mordovia - to what Tolokonnikova's husband has described as "jail hell".
In his last annual report the former chief inspector of prisons, Nick Hardwick described the jails he had inspected as "places of violence, squalor and idleness" and said that English and Welsh prisons were in their "worst state in 10 years".
In a way, I've been writing an advice column with some of these silly little posts, I try to help the people by explaining what not to do or by simply describing what jail was for me.
A former governor, now in jail, described him as "more Machiavellian than Machiavelli".
