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Child prisoners in Cambodia
Globally there are more than one million children in prison. In developing countries children, including those who have only committed minor offences, often serve their sentences in appalling conditions alongside adult prisoners. Photographer Matt Writtle recently travelled with EveryChild to see how poor children who become separated from their parents to live and work on the streets, are subject to violence and exploitation and may end up in prison without trial.
In this slideshow, produced for the Guardian website, Matt meets some children living and working on the streets in Cambodia, and gains unique access to some of Cambodia’s provincial prisons and children incarcerated there.
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