Police in Senegal carried out raids on November 26 and 28 on several correctional facilities where hundreds of people, some just teenagers, were being held. These private reform centres, which are run by followers of the religious leader and politician Serigne Modou Kara, claim to put wayward young people back on the “right path.” But according to a statement by police, the people in these facilities were mistreated and sometimes even tortured.
Why hundreds of young people are being trapped, tortured in private prisons in Senegal
