"We found that some of the treatment children in custody experience would in another setting be considered abusive and could trigger a child protection investigation."
According to Lord Carlisle on BBC Radio4, Britain has twice as many children in prison as in Germany, which has around twenty million more inhabitants. Shocking.
He also said, that some children seek to provoke abuse as this is what they have always known.
I find it terrible, that instead of seeking to address the roots of child offence, our society prefers to concentrate on punishment. At the same time, is it that surprising?
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