Appalling conditions - a disgraced society


	Appalling conditions - a disgraced society

bs1999bs

4-16-2008 4:21 AM

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bs1999bs says:

Child prisoners in many countries are a fact of life - but it shouldn't be.

It is time we, as a society, did far better!

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How could any civilized nation inflict this barbarity on its children?
Though CNN reported that there are about a million children held in adult prisons in some 192 countries, it is the searing images of some of the 20,000 child prisoners in the Philippines that will be forever seared in the minds of CNN viewers.
The CNN report exposed the debasing poverty of the Philippines with shots of children foraging over garbage fields to scavenge for anything that could be sold or used. The image of young Filipino children sniffing glue under a bridge to numb the pain of their hunger will not soon be forgotten.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DED14209-042A-4159-947C-C440F048F72C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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