The Independent By May Bulman
Inspectors find teenagers locked in cells during school day as concern mounts about youth custody system
The rate of violent assaults on children at a youth jail has surged in the past two years, with the prisons watchdog slamming conditions at the facility as “completely unacceptable”.
A Prison Inspectorate report on Cookham Wood Young Offenders Institution (YOI) in Kent finds that the facility, which holds 87 children aged from 15 to 18, has considerably worsened further since the last…
