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A traditional Jamaican tenement yard with a zinc fence stands in the Rema ghetto community of Kingston June 16, 2008. An estimated 30-45% of the roughly 950,000 population of Kingston live in overcrowded inner-city communities like Rema.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 4368x2912 / 2.8MB; Jamaica Jamaican gangs violence murder homicide rates capita crime justice society poverty community garrison gangsters guns weapons youth culture Caribbean tropics West Indies ghetto inner-city inner city epidemic zinc fences urban decay housing tenement yard yards cheme horizontal Jamaica Kingston garrison garrisons gangs ghetto poverty violence gangsters crime culture violence tragic crisis island Jamaican armed gang life killing homicide rate political violence PNP JLP neighborhood members guns weapons criminal projects
Contained in galleries: Jamaican Violence Project

A traditional Jamaican tenement yard with a zinc fence stands in the Rema ghetto community of Kingston June 16, 2008. An estimated 30-45% of the roughly 950,000 population of Kingston live in overcrowded inner-city communities like Rema.