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01 March 2004

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The report Juveniles in Custody, by the chief inspector of prisons and the Youth Justice Board, published on 20 April 2004, showed that 91% of girls and 89% of boys wanted to stop offending, and believed that finding a job was most likely to assist them in this. Only 32% of boys and 44% of girls felt they had done something in custody that would help them find a job on release. The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers, stated that this showed that there were still "significant weaknesses" in provision for child prisoners' not least as regards "distance from home and the variation and quantity of education and training." On a visit to HMP Holloway on the same day, David Blunkett, Home Secretary, announced a £316 m. plan to hold jailed teenage girls separately from adult women prisoners. A network of four specialist units is to be built at existing prisons by 2006. There are currently 86 girls held in adult prisons in England and Wales.

"Juveniles in Custody - A Unique Insight into the Perceptions of Young People Held in Prison Service Custody in England and Wales" (April) 2004. see http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs3/juvenilesincustodyreport.pdf

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