Twenty-two officers at a central Japan prison repeatedly assaulted inmates from November last year to this August by spraying their faces with alcohol and hitting them on their buttocks with sandals, the Justice Ministry said Friday.The three inmates who were separately assaulted at Nagoya Prison were men in their 40s, 50s and 60s, with the oldest suffering an injury near his left eyelid, according to the ministry.Justice Minister Ken Saito apologized to the inmates at a press conference Friday, saying, "It is completely unacceptable and extremely regrettable that prison officers engaged in…READ FULL ARTICLE
