Last week, junior Home Office minister Fiona Mactaggart published a statement saying the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is developing a new strategy and standard for the management of younger adult offenders in custody and the community.
She said the service will consider the appropriate age range for those to be treated as young adult offenders, the use of the prison estate for this age group, and the regimes and interventions required in prison and the community.
Mactaggart said that NOMS would consider implementing Section 61 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000, which effectively abolishes the sentence of being sent to a young offender institution. This would not necessarily mean the abolition of young offender institutions themselves, said a Home Office spokesman.
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