It looks to me that they are still minors. Minors should not be jailed like this, dumped in unhealthy condition. Are they sentenced or just detained? You can not detain anybody more than 24 hours without raising a case. I believed this is another case of cleaning the "eye-sore" and it's purpose is not to reform this youths, this is not the way of turning them into productive citizens.
In the US, minors who break the law are placed in special camps for counceling; however, except if the crime is murder.
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