The cost of custody
PG Wodehouse famously got into a great deal of trouble for suggesting that anyone who had coped with a public school education could cope admirably in a PoW camp, and the comparison between public school and an open prison has often been made. Who knew that locking up a young criminal, however, costs £140,000 a year, six times the cost of sending a child to Eton? In February 2,195 children aged 10 to 17 were held in England and Wales. Research from the New Economics Foundation has shown that youth custody makes young people more likely to re-offend, and be unemployed later in life. Send them to Eton, maybe, but we wouldn't want them to pick up any more bad habits.....
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