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THE government is to step in to take over the running of scandal-hit private youth prison Medway Secure Training Centre from G4S.
It was at the centre of claims that staff assaulted children in their care.
A source told the BBC that the prison in Rochester, Kent, would be taken over by the Ministry of Justice and run through the National Offender Management Service by the end of July.
Sexual harassment on Britain’s railways is rising sharply, according to the British Transport Police, yet too many women still feel reporting is futile. LYNNE WALSH asks why the burden of safety all too often remains on women themselves
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
