The classroom is filled twice every morning and twice every afternoon. They are "more or less" constant groups. The teacher explains that being in a prison, and even more so in the one for Young Offenders, leads to "a lot of mobility". "It's not easy to sustain a group, but when it happens, truly beautiful things emerge," he says. As he speaks, about a dozen boys are progressing on their projects. Some are drawing, some are painting with brushes, and others are making sculptures from cardboard sheets. Like the rest of the inmates at the Young Offenders prison, they are all adults, but under 25 years old.

"The kids who come in are getting worse and worse. I have poly-drug addicts. I don't have the necessary training to treat any of these addictions," laments a worker at a juvenile justice center who asked ARA to remain anonymous to avoid reprisals. In the last year, he has seen psychotic episodes, minors addicted to psychotropic drugs, and various mental health conditions for which he is unprepared. However, he explains that he has had to do it anyway, since the center doesn't have enough resources to guarantee professional care.

The murder of a social worker in a juvenile justice floor in Badajoz The death of three of the admitted children has inflamed the spirits of Catalan professionals. This Wednesday morning, they gathered outside their workplaces, and in the afternoon, they did so in Barcelona's Plaça de Sant Jaume, at a gathering organized by the College of Social Educators of Catalonia (CEESC), which attracted nearly 200 people. "We're not surprised by what happened in Badajoz," exclaimed a professional who works at a shelter, the "funnel" through which abandoned minors pass under the guardianship of the Directorate General for Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA) before being referred to the final resource. "We've normalized many complicated situations, assaults, and threats," asserted Noèlia.