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Third Place
Christian Als GraziaNeri
"A Childhood Behind Bars"
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In Latvia the age of criminal responsibility is 14.
Prior to the coming into force of a new Criminal Law in 1999, the age of
criminal responsibility for most crimes was 16, and 14 only for the serious
and grave crimes. The new Criminal Law also extended the maximum prison
sentence length for juveniles from 10 to 15 years. Many of the children in
the prison has comitted murder. Smoking in the court yard.
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