By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iraq will reopen the notorious Abu Ghraib prison next month, but it's getting a facelift and a new name, a senior justice official said.
The heavily fortified compound of gray, stonewalled buildings and watchtowers has come to symbolize American abuse of some prisoners captured in Iraq after photos were released showing US soldiers sexually humiliating inmates at the facility.
The scandal stoked support for the insurgency and was one of the biggest setbacks to the US military effort to win the peace in Iraq.
The renovated facility will be called Baghdad's Central Prison because the name Abu Ghraib has left a "bitter feeling inside Iraqis' hearts," deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim said Saturday.
Abu Ghraib, which was a torture center under Saddam Hussein, has been closed since 2006.
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