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Tough on the inside (1)

01 January 1991

Tough on the inside
artdoc July=1994

Despite public criticism Mr Howard remained determined to press
ahead with plans for a national network of `child jails' or
secure units for 12- to 14-year-olds which forms one of the main
planks of the Criminal Justice Bill, despite threats of a defeat
in the Lords at the hands of an alliance of Tory and opposition
peers who argue that locking up children is not the way to deal
with juvenile crime. Campsfield, Gringley (Notts), Medomsley
(Durham) and Onley (Northants) were named as the first four
sites, and criminal justice minister David Maclean said tender
invitations were being issued for private companies to design,
build, operate, maintain and finance the centres. They are
supposed to house more than 200 offenders, who will serve up to
12 months there if they have committed three imprisonable
offences or have breached a court order.
Guardian 23.4.94; Independent 12.5.94.

Statewatch, Vol 4 no 3, May-June 1994