Growing up banged up

摘要

The teenagers on their way to Ashfield prison who were made to urinate in plastic bags rather than be let out of the prison-van; the boys at Castington jail who were allowed to shower only twice a week; the seven teenagers at the same prison who suffered wrist-fractures while being restrained by staff: it is easy to hope that, however horrible the details that emerge from official inspections of young offenders' institutions, hardly any young people have to suffer such a fate.