Sentences with phrase «about young offenders»

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She highlighted growing concerns about safety, particularly in dispersal prisons and young offender institutions, and about rates of self - harm among young women; she also warned of «unsuitable, cramped, or unhygienic accommodation» in some prisons.

Gemma Creagh talks to director Peter Foott, and actors Hilary Rose and PJ Gallagher about «The Young Offenders».

Ms Spielman's report also raised particular concerns about education standards in young offenders institutions, which she said could be «extremely poor».

He thought of the more minor offenders, agonizing over the young ones especially, whose lives were spiraling, the ones who perhaps had things left in them to do, the ones who wouldn't likely ever murder, but had been unable to extricate themselves from these spirals, from their deranged fathers or their addled mothers, from the lack of any parents, from sexual abuse, from the vagaries of the foster care system, from the sorts of daily hurdles that Walters would never have dreamed about — the boys (and occasional girls) who were at that corner, who could turn, the ones whose direction wasn't already set.

Quebec's objection to Bill C - 10 is based on a lack of science to support the bill's changes to the youth justice system and on social and cultural values about how young offenders should be treated.

During Bar school he was Director of Streetlaw Prisons, a pro-bono organisation that educates prison inmates at Feltham Young Offenders Institution about their legal rights and responsibilities.

About 20 years ago, a policeman in Wagga Wagga called Terry O'Connell, who was concerned at the high numbers of repeat offenders in the justice system, developed a method for dealing with young offenders, victims and their respective families.