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Overcrowded and Mixed with Adults: Bangladesh’s Child Development Centers Face Severe Crisis
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By Halim Mohammad (Dhaka Bureau)Caught in a web of legal complexities, delayed judicial processes, and severe infrastructural limitations, Child Development Centers in Bangladesh (formerly known as juvenile correction homes) are facing an acute crisis.
* Gazipur Child Development Center (Boys): Despite an official capacity of 300 (and an infrastructural capacity of just 200), the facility currently houses 578 children and young adults.
* Jessore Child Development Center (Boys): Housing 295 residents against a capacity of 300, this facility has 69 inmates whose official ages are completely unrecorded.
As a result, even as detainees grow into adulthood, they remain in child development centers while their cases remain pending.
During a recent visit to the Gazipur Boys Center, Minister for Social Welfare Professor Dr. A.Z.M.