Submitted by crinadmin on
Summary: In the island nation of Jamaica, many
children-often as young as twelve or
thirteen-are detained for long periods,
sometimes six months or more,in filthy
and overcrowded police lockups, in
spite of international standards and
Jamaican laws that forbid such
treatment. The full text of this report is on HRW's website at
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/reports/1999/jamaica/