This was the scene yesterday when I went to the jail to visit my client Paul O to review his asylum application. We were seated in a glass enclosed cubicle next to another enclosed cubicle. In that cubicle there was a woman dressed in pale blue prison garb. She sat at one end of a table. At the other end, a well dressed woman sat, and three young children, I would say age 2-6, crowded around the table, sometimes pressing their faces against the window that separated the two cubicles. The woman, in her early thirties, hugged and joked with the children.
