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4 days ago · I was in HM Remand Centre 1988-91 (working as a probation officer!) and watched this new prison HMP Blakenhurst being built. Hewell Grange, formerly a borstal, is a stately home built for the Earl of Plymouth in 1884. It is now an open prison and the grounds with several rare trees are open to the public on certain days, I believe.
8 hours ago · Waipareira chief executive John Tamihere says the Government’s new boot camps will fail if they do not come with long term wraparound support for the young people involved. He says the proposed camp in a Kainga Ora youth justice facility in Palmerston North looks like back to borstal, with the underlying bash them up make them good mentality ...
4 days ago · The Prison is now a Borstal Institution. The island was first joined to the mainland by a bridge over the Fleet in 1839 and then by the railway in 1865. Before this, stone was taken away by sea.
2 days ago · Scum takes place in the '70s and focuses on the brutal acts that were happening in the juvenile detention centers known as the British Borstal system.Drawing inspiration from real stories of those ...
1 day ago · The plot centers on Colin Smith, a young man sentenced to a borstal after robbing a bakery. He discovers a talent for long-distance running, which becomes a pivotal element in his life at the reformatory. Michael Redgrave and Tom Courtenay feature prominently in the film.
The Maharashtra Prisons and Correctional Services Act 2024, tabled on Thursday, proposes far-reaching reforms including open prisons for women, borstal institutions, and segregated facilities for...
4 days ago · It was a lunatic asylum from 1897 to 1906, then a school for mental defectives, and in the 1920s a boys' Borstal. It was finally left empty and was demolished in 1928. A fragment of the medieval building was then uncovered and left standing, but little of it now remains.
