Then there was Conchetta, the tiny New Orleans motel-turned-detention center where children were shoehorned five to a cell and three squares a day meant sandwiches stacked on a bed each morning.
It made early detention of the tiny beasts, both visual and sensual, possible.
Six thousand miles away, the former chair of Nissan Renault, Carlos Ghosn, is spending his seventh night in a tiny cell in the Tokyo detention centre.
Other migrants are being held in detention centers on tiny islands like Nauru, where, according to an Australian Senate committee report, children are sexually abused and guards offer weed in exchange for sex.
"We are getting crazy in here," says another asylum-seeker child, locked in an Australian detention centre in the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru.
The tiny communities where the prisons and detention centers are located — sometimes more than a day's drive away from the children's families — must surely have trouble attracting teachers, psychologists and well-trained corrections workers.
It's unclear how he escaped or what motivated him to leave the detention centre for the tiny island around it, known for its dense jungle and dangerous cliffs, and from which he had no way to escape.
Referred to cynically by some as Australia's "Cambodia solution," the deal could eventually involve people held in Australian off-shore detention facilities on the tiny Pacific Island of Nauru.
The Nauru Files are the biggest leak to date from Australia's offshore detention camp on that tiny Pacific Island.
Crépeau, one of just a handful of international observers to go to the detention center on the tiny South Pacific island of Nauru, said children were bearing the brunt of Australia's harsh offshore detention policy.
