A look at incarcerated youth

As the country is wrapping youth month. Being young and in wrong side of the law is a sad reality, that's painful to every patriotic South African. Even more concerning is a growing number of youths in correctional facilities. The situation is a reality at the Boksburg Juvenile Maximum Correctional Centre, in Ekurhuleni. Here, of two and a half thousand inmates, almost 300 are between ages of 19 and 23. Their sentences range from 12 years to life in prison. Among other crimes, they're being convicted of murder and robbery.
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