Thursday, January 13, 2005

Analysis: Policy - Youth custody. Calls for Scholes inquiry intensify / Young People Now, 12 Jan 2005

http://www.ypnmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=full_news&ID=5963
"Despite mounting pressure from campaigning groups, the Home Office is refusing to hold an inquiry into the death of 16-year-old Joseph Scholes at Stoke Heath Young Offender Institution. Tom Lloyd asks why.
Last month, Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights added its support to calls for a public inquiry into the death of 16-year-old Joseph Scholes, who hanged himself in his cell in Stoke Heath Young Offender Institution in March 2002. "