Latest editorial
GOVERNMENT plans to warehouse hundreds of young offenders in secure colleges dubbed “super prisons” were condemned yesterday by unions and Labour.
The proposed secure colleges would cater for hundreds of young people in detention, replacing existing young offenders’ institutions, secure training centres and children’s homes.
Plans are already under way for an initial college which would hold 320 boys and girls aged 12-18 at an estimated cost of £85m.
Long-term underfunding and state neglect, while simultaneously probation services have been undermined, have intensified the prison crises, argues SOLOMON HUGHES
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN