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HOW DO CHILDREN LIVE IN THE PRISONS?
As outrageous as it may seem, in Ecuador children often MUST accompany their parents
in prison for lack of another care giver. In prison the conditions of these childrens' life are inadequate for their health and upgrowing.
- The prisons are cramped and virtually devoid of basic sanitary
facilities.
- Insufficient housing capacity, reduced cells, absence of appropriate spaces.
- There is no food destined for the children.
- Due to the lack of proper control, children are continually exposed to both
physical and psychological abuse. In some cases they are sexual abused.
- The staff in the prisons are not trained to properly take care of the children
and their detained mothers.
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