Children in detention often suffer severe violations of their basic rights. Arrest, detention and sentencing are often arbitrary and sometimes even illegal - the results of extrajudicial proceedings by police or military systems in which no civil protections exist. Detained children can be below the age of criminal responsibility and kept with adult prisoners who may abuse them.
Frequently, the conditions under which they must survive are deplorable and inhumane - no heat, inadequate food, insufficient beds, lice-ridden blankets, poor sanitation facilities and no exercise. Some are kept in solitary confinement for long periods. Physical abuse is common; injuries include broken bones, broken hands, damaged eardrums, bruises and deep trauma often resulting from torture and interrogation.
Children are frequently sexually abused. Parents are commonly denied visitation rights and are often not informed of a child's whereabouts. The detention of children is severely distressing and disruptive for their families.
I wrote this poem in italian
and translated in english 
I dedicate this to all the children who are suffering in this World!
I WONDER
I wonder... if one day i will suceed to dream...
I wonder... if one day i will suceed to close my eyes
smile and fly away in the sky
I wonder.. If I will be able to see my family and my friends
I wonder .. if one day i will suceed to look at the sky
smile and admire its stars...
Mother.. Why did you leave me alone in this nightmare?
I want to begin to live
I want to begin to be happy
I want to begin to be a child.
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