Life inside 2010, published by the Howard League for Penal Reform, is the first policy report to be published as part of the U R Boss project, following a series of workshops and one-to-one meetings with boys aged 15- to 17-years-old currently in custody and released into the community.
Concerns raised by young people include:
Meanwhile, young people reported an average cost of 65p a minute for phone calls to family and a lack of family visits due to the distance children are jailed from their homes. Children also reported a lack of engagement in their sentence planning.
During the past three years, custody levels for under-18s have fallen by more than 20 per cent.
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