2011-06-06

Juveniles in prison

fiatalkorúak börtöne  -  Sierra Leone  -  ma


'Mohamed Conteh, 14 years,  was arrested for  possessing small quantity of  cannabis and spent four days at the police station without food. The police asked for 30 000 leones (7.5 euros) to be released.  After several months in prison he was sentenced to three years in jail or pay bail of 100,000 leones (25 Euros). He was living on street  and dont  have  money.

It is an unwritten law that  poor in most african countries  do not have a lawyer in trials.The majority  of  prisoners spend years in jail before receiving sentence.

Overcrowding in prisions, violence, sexual abuse, promiscuity, malnutrition, infectious diseases, poor hygiene and  lack of medical care are all common occurrences.'



Fernando Moleres (Bilbao, 1963) photo-documentalist, based in Barcelona.
These next pictures were taken in Sierra Leone.













So guys?


But in a certain way your childhood was not different either.
That is why you are here.
And we like it.

Persze bizonyos értelemben a te gyerekkorod sem volt más.
Ezért is vagy itt.
És nekünk ez tetszik.


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