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YOUNG offenders are to once again be sent to a privately run youth prison at the centre of allegations of abuse and mistreatment.
The Youth Justice Board (YJB) stopped placing youngsters at the Medway Secure Training Centre in Rochester, Kent, in the wake of a damning BBC Panorama exposé.
Undercover footage from the G4S-run centre appeared to show staff mistreating and abusing young inmates and boasting about the use of inappropriate restraint techniques on children at the facility.
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
AN “alarming” ingress of drugs at a prison led to the most inmate deaths in Wales and England last year, inspectors reveal today.
