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Built in 1848, it operated as an adult prison from 1848, a borstal from 1921, and a young offenders institution from 1988. A borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom, several member states of the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland. In India, such a detention centre is known as a borstal school.
Borstal system, English reformatory system designed for youths between 16 and 21, named after an old convict prison at Borstal, Kent. The system was introduced in 1902 but was given its basic form by Sir Alexander Paterson, who became a prison commissioner in 1922.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 17, 2002 · The first borstal opened 100 years ago this week, establishing a method of dealing with troubled boys that lasted much of the past century. Here, Ron Lovelock recalls how he came to spend two...
Oct 11, 2021 · It is Portland Borstal, built a few years after the war, that concerns us here. Suicides of Boy Prisoners. Portland was originally established as an adult convict prison in the mid-19th Century. It became a borstal in 1921, and a young offender institution in 1988 (the borstal system was abolished by the Criminal Justice Act 1982).
- Heather Shore
- 2021
Learn about the first Borstal, a type of juvenile detention centre, that opened in Kent in 1902. See 27 photographs of Borstal Boys, staff and building from the archives of the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Learn about the origins, development and characteristics of borstal, a special type of institution for young offenders in the UK from 1908 to 1988. Find out how borstal inmates were trained, disciplined, supervised and treated in different settings and conditions.
Jun 27, 2024 · It was the means to achieve the end that differed between the borstal system devised by Ruggles-Brise and that developed by Paterson, not so much the end itself, which for both men largely converged: to turn wayward youths into conforming members of industrious working-class society.
