	When Adnan Comes Home Documentary (74 min.)
	Sixteen-year-old Adnan Ghazi’s life was ruined by a tragic sequence of events that landed him in Iraq’s criminal justice system under foreign occupation. At the end of 2003, Adnan was arrested for stealing two meters of electric cable. This type of crime is widespread throughout the country. Cable is looted and melted down for scrap metal, hindering efforts toward reconstruction. It is considered a serious crime against the state. When Adnan was arrested, he was brought to the police station in a small town just outside Baghdad. There, he claims to have been beaten by the police until he confessed to the theft. He was moved to the Karkh Juvenile Detention facility to await his trial. Almost two hundred boys are incarcerated there. The inmates range from small time felons to murderers and rapists. After Adnan had been imprisoned for two months, two of the inmates attempted to escape by starting a fire. A number of boys were trapped in the fire. Twenty-one were taken to the hospital. Three died from smoke-inhalation. The others had severe burns ranging from thirty to eighty percent of their bodies. Of the survivors, Adnan was the most badly burned. He lost his ears and the flesh on his hands and scalp. On a slow path to an incomplete recovery, Adnan’s greatest desire was to be released from prison, return to his family and reconcile with his father.