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Children in jail in the Philippines is a significant problem. According to Amnesty International, over 50,000 children in the Philippines have been arrested and detained since 1995. Torture, rape and other forms of cruel and inhumane treatment are a part of everyday life for those children while they're incarcerated. Most are charged with minor crimes, such as petty theft, sniffing solvents and vagrancy. ==History and statistics== By 2001, jailed children in the Philippines was attracting international media attention. The Australian government-owned television network, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ran a documentary on the issue in which it stated that children as young as eight are being held in adult prisons in The Philippines in contravention of international statutes and the country’s own laws. In September 2005, it was estimated that over 4,000 children were in jails and detention centers all over the country — many of them mixed with adults.〔 Another estimate states there are an estimated 20,000 children in prison in the Philippines throughout a single year. By May 6, 2005, it was estimated there were 2,100 children in jails across the Philippines, 20 of them on death row. Getting information on children in jail is difficult. "No one knows what goes on inside of prisons because no one is allowed in," Father Cullen said during an interview with the ''Western Catholic Reporter'', the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Edmonton. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Children in jail in the Philippines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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