Elisabeth Davies, in her first month as the national chair of Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs), has urged prisons minister Damien Hinds to fix poor conditions in YOIs across England after reports that existing concerns have “considerably heightened”.
A letter to Hinds lays out IMB findings across the four YOIs in England currently holding under 18s – Cookham Wood, Wetherby, Feltham A and Werrington.
It states that concerns previously raised by many IMBs, including limited time out of rooms, lack of purposeful activity and spikes in violence, have now been “considerably heightened and appear to be endemic across all YOIs in England”.
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