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.