The prison was so badly damaged that Amir Mohammad Jamshidi, the head of prisons at the Interior Ministry, said the government would have to transfer all 146 prisoners to Pul-i-Charkhi, the main prison in neighboring Kabul Province.
He was succeeded by Mahmoud Wagdy, a retired general who had been the head of the Cairo criminal investigations division and a former head of prisons.
In addition to rooting for Faraday, you are invited to get fully behind the city's doltish but well-meaning head of prisons.
He's been the warden of the largest state penitentiary in South Carolina, the commissioner of corrections in Indiana, and head of prisons in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
"By law, this should be the exception; it has become the rule," admits Ramiro Aguilar, a law professor at a Quito university who has just been appointed head of prisons.
Amy Rees, head of prisons and probation in Wales, told the committee that a number of pilots were looking at better detecting drugs being brought in.
But in Taylor's corner is former head of prisons, Kim Workman, who is now the director of Rethinking Crime and Punishment.
"This is the place for violence because they are young, they are aggressive, they have no control," said Jörg Jesse, head of prisons in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Back when I was head of prisons having Arthur Taylor there would have driven me spare because people like that take up so much time.
