Because of number of reasons the prison is a socially-organized test for teens. The situation in prison is an extreme situation. And it is important to know who is close to you, wthat you can expect from a person, how to keep with him. This knowledge is important from the point of view of the conditions of existence in prison.
However, there are some rules and guidelines. For example, one of the most important rules: the prisoners can not demand anything from the beginner until he was explained the rules of the prison dormitories and this explanation can be carried out several times. But this rule and also helps organize the test. From the observation of how a beginner is able to follow the accepted rules of the prison his testing begins.
Emotional state of the teens in prison
Almost everyone, especially teenagers, that first came to prison, the prison arouses a state of shock. Particularly acutely this reaction manifests itself in adolescents who finally lost the contact with relatives after the trial . First, it is generally difficult to believe that in such circumstances one can live. As the number of prisoners, including adults, the first three – six months in the prison are the most vibrant and at the same time the most difficult.
People have been known to get used to everything. A person gets used to prison as well, the time passes and a person can even find some specific positive aspects in prison life. After a while, staying in captivity is no longer shocking for a human, and many, as noted above, begin to perceive the prison “like a home.”
Thus, most of the teenagers still become accustomed to their new position after some time.Soon questioning and testing of inmates will start, chamber playing or residence. Incidentally, all these games for teenagers also serve as a distraction from sinking into a depressed state to some degree. They seem to urge teens to prepare for a new life.
In prison teenagers really have an opportunity to test themselves, to carry out what they didn’t do in their free life. But many of them do not stand all this. And as a whole for the average teenager is quite difficult to withstand the conditions of imprisonment because of the situation of adolescent trials which are often not controlled by any rules and principles. Although teens often mimic the prison subculture, actually in the chamber very violent games can occur, violent to the extent that they sometimes end in tragedy. No wonder, even the thieves in their letters urging teenagers not to maim each other, either physically or morally (ritual of descent). And they (the thieves), we must honestly admit, manage much better than the administration.
Unfortunately, the teenager does not get full conditions for development and numerous tests can lead to the degradation of the individual, or, can cause the psychotrauma for life.
The life of teenagers in American prisons
In US prisons there are 90,000 minors. America – one of the rare countries in the world where teenagers from 13-14 years are sentencedthe to death penalty. However, in the “framework of humanisation” they replace execution with life imprisonment. There are more than 2 thousand teenagers with this sentence.
In the United States there are about 3 thousand juvenile correctional institutions, including about 1 thousand – colonies. Number of children in these institutions range from 10 to 300 people. 2/3 prisoners teenagers are colored or Latinos.
America ranks first in the number of juvenile offenders serving their sentences.
How teenagers in Sierra Leone live for years in jail awaiting the trial on their case
In Sierra Leone, there is a special prison called Pademba. Pademba differs from any other prisons by the fact that it contains only teenagers for several years awaiting the trial on their case.
As an illustration, the photographer brings the story of a young boy named Abdul Mores – he was in prison on charges of murder in 2007, when he was just a child. Abdul went to the river with his friend of about the same age – in the end the boy had drowned, and his parents accused Abdul in his death. Abdul’s family didn’t have a chance to get help from the lawyers, so he spent four years in Pademba, waiting for the verdict. Similar stories has a majority of adolescents in this colony.
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