Statistics released by the Prison Reform Trust show that the number of 10- to 17-year-olds detained indefinitely for public protection under Section 226 of the Criminal Justice Act has increased by 170 per cent in three years from 26 in 2005 to 70 in 2008.
The report, published by the Prison Reform Trust, alongside the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at King’s College London, states that indeterminate sentences leave offenders in a "bureaucratic limbo" where they have no means of working towards their release.
It calls on the government to look into abolishing the sentence as part of the forthcoming sentencing policy review.
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