Australian solicitor Bruce Henry (left), a human rights monitor working with the Human Rights ...

Australian solicitor Bruce Henry (left), a human rights monitor working with the Human Rights Component to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). He is standing with the prison's deputy chief, at the entrance to Phnom Penh's notorious municipal prison, known simply as T3, which was originally built by the French colonial authorities and which has had a reputation for brutality and inhuman conditions ever since. Bruce Henry came to the UNTAC operation in June 1992 from a legal aid and human rights background and held a senior position in the Human Rights Component's investigation and monitoring unit. Henry recalls that the prison deputy chief was 'a decent person who would have liked to improve things in the prison, but the whole situation was so hopeless and overwhelming that no matter what we tried to do with the help of people like him things deteriorated back to the same dismal state they were in before.' Cambodia's prison system shocked Henry, who came across prisoners who had been jailed without trial for ten years or more. In 1999, T3 was demolished.