SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT SIERRA LEONE: Juvenile detention centres lack means to reform inmates After spending years without trial detainees return to society worse off than they were.

By Ahmed SahidNasralla (De Monk) Most of the inmates share mattresses and nets, little sleep on the cold floor Jesus is Freedom: inmates express their faith and hope through sketches on the walls of their dormitories When they have the materials the inmates produce stuffs like these for sale. He was 15 years when he was brought to the remand home for juveniles in Kingtom, Freetown, after he was arrested for alleged sexual penetration in his home town of Masiaka in Northern Sierra Leone. He had to be brought this far, about 72 km...