For many young offenders in South Sudan,the Wau detention centre is the only alternative to life on the street. Some commit further crimes so they can return [br]“Most of our children are in here for committing the crime of stealing food,” says senior probation officer Altaf Hawa Bol. Many of them are children from other counties. Most of them don’t occupy families.”She gestures to the boys kicking a football around the muddy internal courtyard of Wau juvenile detention facility. A group of older boys sit in a corner chatting, and eyeing a stick-wielding prison guard nervously. Somewhere in the background a child can be heard screaming.
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Source: theguardian.com