Children In Prison
EDM number 1727 in 2005-06, proposed by Rudi Vis on 01/03/2006.
That this House welcomes the investigation commissioned by the Howard League for Penal Reform, conducted by Lord Carlile, into the use of physical restraint, solitary confinement and strip searching of children in prisons and privately run child jails; and calls on the Government to implement all 45 recommendations in order to protect children, end the use of pain and isolation as methods of control and punishment, and to improve the care of children in custody in order to reduce the 90 per cent. reconviction rate.
This motion has been signed by a total of 58 MPs.
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