Cuba: Youth in Prison  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

Iván's File Cabinet blogs about the majority of “common (non-political) prisoners in Cuba [being] black or mestizo”, saying: “The environment in which these youths grow up is fertile ground for delinquency.  The worst part [is] that the Cuban State doesn’t have a solution for the problem of a society that grows more unstable and violent.”