I read more about them - they feed the kids three times a day, and there are phone banks where kids try to reach family. Some are coming with phone numbers already in their pockets to try to call family in the states. Oh and they give them a shower and change of clothes when they are brought in.

What alarmed me about the conditions in which they are being held wasn't so much about cleanliness or availability of resources as much as the punitive nature of it. The warehouse doesn't look like a group home, it looks like jail. there were images in the slideshow I saw of preteen girls in holding cells. They were even labeled "female juvenile holding cell."They looked so scared and confused. I'm not sure we need to be locking them up in jail like that. I was in juvy several times as a kid, but at least I deserved it.