The MPA looked into the Metropolitan Police's dealings with young people and interviewed more than 1,000 young people and adults over a six-month period in 2007/08. Young people were scathing about custodial sentences and told the MPA that young offender institutions (YOIs) were "youth clubs" or "holiday camps". One young person who had had a custodial sentence at a YOI admitted the first two to three weeks of her sentence were...