Pepper spray to be used in young offender institutions as violence rises

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…

Rise in violence prompts trial of pepper spray in young offender prisons

Prison officers in three young offender institutions (YOIs) will start using synthetic pepper spray from this summer in a bid to combat rising…

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…

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Pepper spray to be used in young offender institutions as violence against staff 14 times higher than adult prisons

Prison officers in young offender institutions will start using pepper spray in a bid to combat soaring violence levels from inmates.

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