This is the 1 Million Pound question. The fact are: Youth crime on the rise, overcrowded prisons and in a devastating recession we really have other problems than that. Really? Surveys have shown that once a young person is imprisoned it finds it hard to live a normal life later.
So the question is what alternatives are there to prison. The PRT have suggested a number of measures such as a one year review of custodial sentences, to reduce the number of children remanded in custody, more power for local authorities regarding child detention.
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