Statistics show that there were 377 incidents of segregation at Ashfield YOI in 2011, an increase of 101 per cent since 2008 when there were 188 incidents.
The figures have emerged just a month after it was revealed that prison officers’ use of force on children at Ashfield increased nine-fold in the space of a year.
Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "Segregation removes children from the normal prison wing, takes them from regular education and severely restricts their movements.
"Children are unable to associate with other children and placed in a bare cell alone for days on end.
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