Thursday, October 14, 2004

£3.5m prison unit for young offenders / ic SurreyOnline, 12 Oct 2004

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Joan Mulcaster
"JUVENILE offenders are due to detained in a new ?3.5m unit at Downview women's prison.
They will be moved out of Holloway to the Banstead jail as part of a ?16m Youth Justice Board initiative for housing increasing numbers of young female offenders.
The teenage inmates will be kept in their specialist separate unit while doing time for their crime within a programme designed to keep them out of trouble when released.
Home Secretary David Blunkett does not believe offenders barely out of childhood should be kept in high-profile women's prisons like Holloway."