Case Explained: The protection vacuum: Maldives grapples with children caught between law and exploitation – Legal Perspective

“As for prisons for children, at the moment, the prison facility we have is in the general area of the same island, but it has physically a main boundary, which is entirely separate, separate security personnel who are assigned and the physical space itself limits the entire engagement in any form, whether it’s hearing or seeing the adult prison complex, or anything that goes on in there. And at this moment we are happy to say that there is no child in the prison system. And although 15 to 18 years of age, children have been dealt with by the criminal justice system in the past four five years, the fact that no child is in prison shows that we have using alternative forms of addressing the issues, and we will continue to do so with regard to the gang activities and children being exploited by gangs.”