CHILDREN IN PRISON

Motion Text

That this House welcomes the investigation commissioned by the Howard League for Penal Reform, conducted by Lord Carlile, into the use of physical restraint, solitary confinement and strip searching of children in prisons and privately run child jails; and calls on the Government to implement all 45 recommendations in order to protect children, end the use of pain and isolation as methods of control and punishment, and to improve the care of children in custody in order to reduce the 90 per cent. reconviction rate.