UK: "Archaic" YOI condemned

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Although "slopping-out" officially ended in 1996, when inspectors recently visited HMP YOI Portland in Dorset they found young offenders forced to slop out every morning. Inmates were forced to throw parcels of excrement from their cell windows because sanitation at the jail was so poor. Inspectors also observed racial tension and considerable distrust between Muslim inmates and staff. Describing the institution as a "crumbling island fortress" the inspectors said that it "harks back to a more authoritarian way of dealing with young people.”

Guardian 30.11.04; BBC News 30.11.04; HM Prisons Inspectorate

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