I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.
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I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.Janis Karpinski
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While accepting her share of the responsibility ... were not the work of a few wayward soldiers and their female leader.
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