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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.
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).
The first Borstal (a type of juvenile detention centre) was opened in the village of Borstal, near Rochester, in Kent, in 1902. The Borstal system was intended to separate young offenders from the influence of older habitual criminals and provide education and training, in the hope that this would make inmates less likely to reoffend once released.
Borstal Institution, Borstal, 1920s. © Peter Higginbotham The object of the borstal system was the all-round development of character and capacities — moral, mental, physical and vocational — with particular emphasis on the development of and self-control through trust increasing with progress.
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.
