Fatal Injustice: Rampant Punitiveness, Child Prisoner Deaths, and Institutionalized Denial—A Case for Comprehensive Independent Inquiry in England and Wales

Part of a special issue on deaths in custody and detention. In the wake of the mass imprisonment social experiment in the U.S., successive Labour governments have imposed their own crackdown in England and Wales, with implications for child prisoners. A comprehensive independent inquiry is needed to...

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Main Author: Boldson, Barry (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2006
In: Social justice
Year: 2006, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 52-68
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Criminal Law
Prison System
Inmates of institutions
Criminal Procedure
Criminal Justice System
Detention of persons
Social Justice
Imprisonment
Juvenile justice administration
Juvenile prisoners
Care of people
Mortality
Juvenile delinquents
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Summary:Part of a special issue on deaths in custody and detention. In the wake of the mass imprisonment social experiment in the U.S., successive Labour governments have imposed their own crackdown in England and Wales, with implications for child prisoners. A comprehensive independent inquiry is needed to analyze the politics, policies, and practices that have prompted the incarceration of growing numbers of children, at younger ages and for longer durations. Such an inquiry may be the only suitable way to determine the human costs of repenalization, the damage and harm endured by young prisoners, and, ultimately, the fatal injustice that claimed the lives of 29 children in state prisons and private jails in England and Wales between July 1990 and September 2005.