YES - LISA HOGG, senior development officer, YouthLink Scotland
Most organisations that work with young people have specific training for young people but prisons don't have that, even young offender institutions.
In such institutions and prisons, the training is the same for all groups, whether for adults, women or young people. They don't necessarily need youth work training but they do need training on adolescence.
Young people aged 16 to 21 in young offender institutions are in a transitional stage of life where they are still growing up and going through changes.
Even their perceptions of life change.
A lot of prisons are changing though, with officers interacting more with young people and talking through issues with them to build confidence, self-esteem and learning, rather than being solely punitive. A lot of it is like restorative justice, which they are introducing in Scotland.
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