Secure training centres (STCs) are privately run prisons that hold young offenders deemed too vulnerable to be held in Prison Service-run young offender institutions.
Until earlier this year the rules for the use of restraint within STCs were different from the rules governing young offender institutions.
Within STCs restraint could only be used as a last resort, and to prevent injury or damage. In young offender institutions it could be used for the broader purpose of ensuring “good order and discipline”.
However on 6 July the Ministry of Justice brought in legislation to standardise the rules. Campaigners argue this has increased the potential for restraint to be used in STCs.
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