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Young Berliners Behind Bars

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March 19, 2013

In a Berlin youth detention centre young offenders get their first taste of prison. Some of them are locked up for weeks for relatively minor offences - it's supposed to act as a deterrent. These "warning shot" detentions have been in operation for around six months in Germany but some experts are very critical.

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