Overflowing Youth Jails 'Are Breeding Career Criminals'

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BRITAIN'S juvenile jails are in crisis and risk breeding a new generation of career criminals, the Government's three most senior advisers on children and youth justice warned today.

In an unprecedented move that will fuel the row over the Home Office's prison policy, the Government's Children's Commissioner, the head of the Youth Justice Board and the Chief Inspector of Prisons issued a joint warning that overcrowding and excessive use of imprisonment were wrecking efforts to rehabilitate young offenders.

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Overflowing Youth Jails 'Are Breeding Career Criminals'

They said the problem was most severe in London - which has around 30 per cent of the 3,300 juveniles in custody - but warned that the youth jus...

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