As someone who has spent 35 years working in the criminal justice system, you would expect Lord Carlile to have a clear view of what is going on in the secure estate. But he admits even he was shocked by what he found during his inquiry, the results of which were published last week.
"Although I'd visited lots of prisons in the past, I'd never really looked properly at the juvenile estate," he says.
The Howard League for Penal Reform asked Carlile to carry out the investigation following the death of Gareth Myatt, a 15-year-old who died after being restrained in Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre in April 2004. Carlile had contact with the Howard League when he was an MP, and says he "has really come to admire its work".
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