The government and the prison service need to address serious flaws in the regimes for 18 to 20 year olds in prison, the chief inspector of prisons declared this week.
Anne Owers has demanded additional resources for improved education, training and more purposeful activity for this group of young offenders.
She made the call after inspection reports of Onley Young Offenders' Institution and Hindley Young Offenders' Institution highlighted unacceptable provision in education and training. Owers said: "The gaps we identify at Hindley and Onley reflect the impoverishment of regimes for 18 to 21-year-olds in our prisons as a whole."
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