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Privatising children's prisons
You can now read an article by Hannah Pittaway on the Reclaim Justice Network website about the various ways that the privatisation of prisons undermines the safety...
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Comment on G4S sale of child prisons
Imprisoned children and young people should not be treated as a commodity, to be bought and sold by the highest bidder, the Centre's director Richard Garside said today.
He was responding to the...
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Thousands of injuries to child prisoners not disclosed
The number of injuries to children in prisons caused during restraint is nearly five times higher than the government has previously disclosed, The Guardian...
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G4S claims Panorama filming was 'illegal'
G4S wrote to the BBC to try to prevent the broadcast of a Panorama film which uncovered abuse at a children's prison run by the security firm,...
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G4S children's prison staff suspended over abuse claims
Seven staff members at a G4S run children's prison in Kent have been suspended over claims they violently abused children at the facility, the BBC reports.
The revelations come from an undercover investigation by BBC's...
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New children's prison 'under review'
In the lead up to the general election in May 2015, plans for a new 'secure college' in Leicestershire were put on hold. Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, was questioned in...
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Youth offending teams boycott G4S secure training centre
Youth offending teams (YOTs) are refusing to send young people to Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre following a damning Ofsted inspection report which revealed gross misconduct by staff at the facility, Children and Young People Now ...
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Children should not be kept in prison
In the wake of a damning Ofsted report into G4S-run Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre, letters criticising the use of prison for children have appeared in The Guardian....
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Our director co-signs letter on the strip-searching of children
Our Director Richard Garside is among the signatories to a letter published today in The Guardian calling for the strip-searching of children in police stations...
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Warehousing children in prisons is wrong
A letter published today in The Daily Telegraph criticises government plans to build the largest children's prison in Europe, describing it as 'bad for...
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I would give up... locking up children
Britain is now the prison capital of Europe sending more people to prison than any other western European country.
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We must do more to protect children in prison
The chief inspector of prisons has identified the single worst prison he has visited – and, scandalously,...