Prisoners cover the floor, many missing eyes or limbs, some bone-thin from illness. Jammed into 2 dark cells are more than 150 children. Inside a prison for former ISIS-held territory residents is a humanitarian crisis the world largely chooses to ignore.

“Little about the minors’ conditions in the Kurdish-run prison appeared to meet international standards...

One crowded cell held 86 minors — from Syria, Iraq, Mauritius, Russia and elsewhere. Another held 67 adolescents and a boy who said he was 9 and from Russia.” https://t.co/SaoAOdiNaW

— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) October 23, 2019