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
