After spending years without trial detainees return to society worse off than they were 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 drive, because the other remand home for juveniles- the only one in the provinces in fact, is farther away in the city of Bo in the South of the country. (Photo: Most of the inmates share mattresses and nets, and a few sleep on the cold floor) Mohamed Sesay* has now spent three years at the remand home without trial. According to the officials at the detention center,...
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