Children are witnessing extreme violence including stabbings while being unnecessarily held in custody awaiting trial or sentencing, the England and Wales watchdog has found.
….they might have seen even worse on the internet, and… oh, I’m forgetting, that was yesterday’s moral panic from the lanyard classes.
One child told inspectors he had watched through his window as another child was stabbed and had “found that scary”.
Yes, prison is a scary place. It's not meant to be a holiday camp. It's meant to be a place you endeavour to stay away from.
Most were in custody for the first time, few were given clear information about why they were being held, and some said they were confused and frightened.
Well, of course they did! They know what will win them sympathy from the lanyard classes...
Andrea Coomber, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the report showed that children were being punished by the mistakes of a prison system that was supposed to help them.
Isn't it also supposed to help us, the general public, by keeping these sorts of people off the streets?
“Prison is a toxic place for children, and spending even a few days in that environment can be terrifying and profoundly damaging. Although remand should always be a last resort, too many children are being sent there by the courts and being punished for the mistakes of services who ought to be helping them.
Helping them with what?
“The majority of children placed on remand and bailed within seven days or fewer are placed in a young offender institution, where they experience long periods locked behind their doors with very little to do.”
Who cares? We outside are safer with them inside.
One child sent to a young offender institution, told inspectors: “I was scared, there was a lot of shouting and noise, and the next morning there were lots of people [referring to other children] at my door, asking me questions in an intimidating way if you know what I mean.”
Yes, we do know. We have to have people to prevent it while we commute to work to pay for the system that keeps you separate from normal society.
Well if they scare them shitless at this stage then the kids will not re-offend where treating them to teacakes and lemonade while playing video games is sure to make them comfortable incarcerated.
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Define "child". Because in my experience it means whatever the activist/journalist wants it to mean. When you or I encounter the word "child" we think of an innocent cherub of 12 years or under, but I've seen child come to also mean anyone up to 18 years of age. Or, in one particular egregious example on the BBC, it also meant young people up to 24. (That was a gun control story out of the US where they blindly quoted statistics from a gun-control lobby group on how many "children" die from guns every year). Of course this is par for the course when dealing with the leftists, who think a 16 year old is mature enough to vote, but can't smoke until they are 21 and counting. And that is before you get to the simple fact that there are teenagers and even 12 year olds out there who are anything but cherubs, but rather feral little horrors, a product of a society that has lost all means of imposing standards of behaviour on those who haven't been able to grasp these principles on their own.
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