From the age of 10, children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland can be found guilty of a crime and, from their 15th birthday, they can be sent to prison. But children’s prisons have been crashing in and out of crisis for years.
At one in particular, Cookham Wood in Kent, inspectors have reported that the regime is broken. And it’s breaking children, nearly half of whom are on remand, not convicted of any crime.
Louise Tickle and Patricia Clarke investigate why the youth justice system is in crisis – and why it's not getting any better.
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