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Two different kinds of Christmas

    Kids are at Home, with Parents, in Bolivian Prisons   themoderatevoice.com                                        After a month of trying to contact Bolivian Ramiro Llanos, prison  director of San Pedro prison  in La Paz, this morning I heard  via the prison dentist, that the prison authorities will be delighted for us to send Christmas present art packs and balloons  for  the 160 children who live in this  prison with their dads.   Christmas in prison?? In Bolivia it's  common for children to live in prisons with their incarcerated parent.  This will happen if there isn't anybody else to look after them.  How can this happen? Mothers may also  be in prison, or have left the family, grandparents maybe to too frail or too  poor to help. The alternative is that the children are dumped on the street.  Many are.   160  girls and boys under 6 years  live  in San Pedro prison with their dads. But first, here's a litte info about our

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