no automatic judicial review of the decision to detain any irregular immigrant, it is obvious that appealing a detention decision is very difficult, if not impossible. Reference should be also made to case of detained unaccompanied minors. Although Greek legislation suggests that detention of unaccompanied minors is a measure of last resort, it does not specifically prohibit this from occurring. As a result they are kept detained together with the other detainees until they are transferred to special facilities. Considering that the capacity and the conditions of these facilities are not adequate the, minors are usually kept for prolonged periods under detention. It is also common practice that minors are registered as adults. In this situation, in addition to being detained, when the detention period is over the minors are released and if they have no friends or relatives they are left alone without any additional assistance to find a way to return to their home countries.