So our revelation this week that restraint use in young offender institutions (YOIs) is up 25 per cent year-on-year is nothing short of devastating. Granted, its use in the more intensively supervised institutions - secure children's homes and secure training centres - is down, but that alone is nothing to crow about.
Restraint will be unavoidable in certain conflict situations in order to protect the young person and others around them. But the fact its use has risen so significantly in YOIs, which house the majority of young offenders, underscores just how badly the juvenile secure estate is failing young people and society at large. Nearly 80 per cent of young prisoners go on to reoffend within the first 12 months after their release.
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