HELP Bolivia's Prison Children~

In the first of a series about prisons in Latin America,
BBC Mundo's Mery Vaca reports on the hundreds of Bolivian children
for whom home is a prison cell.

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Prisons in Bolivia are overcrowded, but not only with adults.
More than 1,200 youngsters live there
while their parents serve their sentences.
The Palmasola prison holds entire families!

In the detention centre of San Pedro
- the most populated male prison in Bolivia's main city, La Paz -
there are 200 children.

Children in that jail receive meals and education
under a government-sponsored programme.
They are also supervised by humanitarian groups.