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INSIDE THE CHILDREN'S PRISON IN ULAANBAATAR,
MONGOLIA
A photo essay by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert: 3/16/02
According to the US State Department's recently released
human
rights report, prison conditions in Mongolia are improving.
Incidents of abuse by prison guards are on the wane; families
have better access to inmates than ever before; and overcrowding
has begun to decrease.
In the capital, Ulaanbaatar, juveniles between the ages of
14 and 18 who are accused of crimes are kept in a separate
detention center, which is also designated a training center.
Here, inmates are kept apart from the adult population, schooled
and hopefully rehabilitated.
Photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert visited the children's
prison in Ulaanbaatar, and captured something of both the
camaraderie and the loneliness of the place with these
photos.
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Posted March 16, 2002 © Eurasianet
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