Child Prison/Secure Colleges Archive
The Government has announced its plans to create a new ‘Secure School’ that will lock up children aged 12-17 as part of a bigger programme to construct more purpose-built secure schools in the coming years ahead. £5 million is being spent …
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/13/young-offenders-institution-restraint-injuries Minister reveals number of injuries during restraint is almost five times higher than Youth Justice Board figure Adam Rickwood hanged himself after being restrained in a secure training centre. Photograph: Christopher Thomond Mark Townsend and Eric Allison Saturday …
Youth jails should be replaced by secure schools, finds review Source: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/09/youth-jails-should-be-replaced-by-secure-schools-finds-review Medway and other privately run secure centres could be replaced by a network of smaller institutions according a review commissioned by Michael Gove Medway secure training centre in …
Source: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Glen-Parva-85million-secure-college-plan-scrapped/story-26877602-detail/story.html#ixzz3fc8xfxQ7 The Government has pulled the plug on a £85 million prison college for young offenders. It was scheduled to open in 2017 alongside the existing Young Offenders Institute in Tigers Road, Glen Parva. The fortified school was to …
A new campaign has been launched to oppose Secure Colleges, children’s prisons to hold more than 320 young people at one time. Visit the site here: http://securecolleges.strikingly.com/ About Secure Colleges The Criminal Justice and Courts Act, introduced under the Coalition …
Source: http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/feltham-officers-top-using-force-9484988 Feltham Young Offenders Institution Prison officers at Feltham used force to control violent young prisoners more often than anywhere else in the country last year. Records from the Ministry of Justice revealed staff had to physically restrain inmates …
Ministry of Justice weighing up alternative options to ‘modern-day borstal’ as departments come under pressure to make spending cuts Michael Gove, the justice secretary, is considering whether to scrap controversial government plans for a super-prison for teenage offenders announced by …
Source: https://downsizingcriminaljustice.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/secure-colleges-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/ Plans for the building of a ‘secure college’ in Leicestershire have reportedly been put on hold until after the general election. The Reclaim Justice Network has published a briefing raising concerns about these institutions and urging all political …
Leicestershire’s Glen Parva Young Offenders Institution has the worst record for inmate suicides in the past four years, according to a charity’s research. Six young men took their own lives at Glen Parva in the past four years, according to …
