US EditionPepper spray to be used in young offender institutions as violence rises
- Prison officers in young offender institutions will start using synthetic pepper spray this summer to combat rising violence, as announced by the Ministry of Justice.
- Assault rates on staff in young offender institutions are reportedly 14 times higher than in adult prisons, according to new figures from the Ministry of Justice.
- The spray will be used in limited circumstances by specially trained staff at three institutions: YOI Werrington, Wetherby, and Feltham A.
- Justice Minister Sir Nic Dakin stated that high levels of violence against officers in young offender institutions are a symptom of a crisis in the criminal justice system.
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In recent years, juvenile delinquency has become the priority of the Ministry of the Interior. For 20 years, France has built closed educational centres, a kind of boarding school behind bars, to offer them a last chance. Are they more effective than juvenile prisons? No studies exist on the recidivism of young people on their way out. The Bergerac centre alone receives more than 300 applications for placement per year, for only 12 places. (Soci…
Pepper spray will be used on kids as young as 15 in young offenders institutes
Getty PEPPER spray will be used on children as young as 15 in young offender institutions to curb a surge in violence. Specially trained prison officers will be allowed to use PAVA, a synthetic pepper spray, in youth custody. Assaults on staff are 14 times higher in teen prisons, which currently house around 400 offenders, than in the adult estate. About two thirds of the young offenders are locked up for violent offences such as murder, attempt…
Pepper spray to be used in youth prisons from this summer as violence rises
Pepper spray will be used in a select number of young offender institutions (YOIs) from this summer after new figures showed rates of assaults on staff were 14 times higher than in adult prisons
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