Youth jail turns to therapy rather than steel doors (BBC)

Karen Clemmer 10/6/204:00 PM

By Sean Coughlan, October 5, 2020, BBC News Family and Education.

"Once you're caught in the grip of the system you are doomed," says the founder of a radically different approach to jailing young offenders.

Steve Chalke aims to stop a revolving door of criminality that at present sees 69% of young prisoners reoffending within a year of release.

He says the "19th Century, Dickensian" approach is "absolutely broken".

Instead he will lead England's first "secure school", opening near Rochester, Kent in 2022.

According to the Ministry of Justice's recent White Paper , this new template for cutting re-offending must be "schools with security, rather than prisons with education".

He wants to use neuroscience rather than clanging steel doors and bars.

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