KID JAILS 'COLLEGES OF CRIME'

INSIDE - Kids in a Young Offenders Institute
INSIDE - Kids in a Young Offenders Institute

Four out of five kids sent to youth prisons re-offend on release

07/02/2010

YOUTH prisons are turning into "colleges of crime" with four out of five kids reoffending.

An inquiry has revealed most young criminals come out of institutions worse than when they went in. Safety, education and health problems, especially psychiatric, mean the system is failing.

The Centre for Social Justice, headed by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, has launched an inquiry into youth prisons. Its main target will be to cut rates of re-offending.

There are about 3,000 youngsters in custody and in the past 20 years, 30 have died locked up. Around 40 per cent fail to get the recommended 25 hours of schooling a week.

Mr Duncan Smith said: "We have got to find ways of getting lawbreakers back on the straight and narrow."

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Labour the criminals best friend.

By steve tea.. Posted February 7 2010 at 1:08 PM.

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