The Howard League for Penal Reform’s legal team has taken the action in relation to additional custody days given to seven children at Ashfield YOI in Bristol, imposed after breaches of rules.
Last week CYP Now revealed that more than 1,800 days of additional punishment were handed out at privately run Ashfield in little over two years, with young people from black minority groups more likely to be reprimanded.
Of the seven children the Howard League is pursuing legal action over, five are from black minority groups or of mixed ethnicity.
The Howard League has described the adjudication process which decides on additional punishments as “at best discriminatory, at worst scandalous”.
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