Resisting Secure Colleges London, June 2015 Secure colleges - Key - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Resisting Secure Colleges � London, June 2015

Secure colleges - Key Points • Glen Parva YOI, Leicestershire • 320 children • £100,000 place per year (‘saving’ £78,000) • 12 -17 year olds 2

Secure colleges - Key Points 3

Secure colleges - Key Points • £85 million project • Planning application submitted August 2014, granted December 2014 • Unanimous support from Blaby District Council 4

Current ‘Provision’ • Secure children’s homes - 10 - run by LAs • Secure training centres - 12-17 year olds - 4 - run by private companies (Serco and Rebound - owned by G4S) • Young Offender Institutions - 12 YOIs for 18-20 year olds (2 privately run) 5

Narrative “Secure Colleges will equip young o ff enders with the skills they need to stop o ff ending and to become law-abiding members of society. Secure Colleges will put high quality education at the core of a regime which both educates and provides rehabilitative services for young people. From the outset of a young person’s sentence Secure Colleges must ensure that they are looking ahead to prepare young people to return to and resettle in their communities” 6

Why do you think they are building secure colleges?

Cost of ‘Youth Justice’ • Bringing young offenders in England and Wales to justice costs an estimated annual total of around £4 billion • In 2009, it was split roughly: • 70 per cent on policing • 17 per cent on punishment • 13 per cent on trials. 8

Reality for Young People • Prisons are inherently violent • Min. one visit per week • Separated from families • Controlled through ‘privileges’ • Self harm & suicide attempts • Restraint • Abuse • Bullying • Monitoring of communication • Segregation • Total domination & control • Likely to be under-staffed, under-funded 9

Quiz How many young adults were from a black or minority ethnic group? (Dec 2014) � A. 41% B. 26% C. 15% D. 6%

Quiz What percentage of young adults were Muslim? (Dec 2014) � A. 10% B. 22% C. 15% D. 6%

Quiz What percentage of young people had been in local authority care? � A. 25% B. 15% C. 33% D. 23%

Quiz How many young men serving sentences had been excluded from school at some point? � A. 55% B. 65% C. 25% D. 88%

Quiz How many young offenders have a diagnosed learning disability? � A. 23% (36% borderline) B. 10% (25% borderline) C. 15% (45% borderline) D. 9% (50% borderline)

Quiz How many young people were electronically tagged in 2008? � A. 5,000 B. 20,000 C. 12,000 D. 20,000

Young People in Prison “…Backgrounds and experiences of family discord, bereavement, substance misuse, self harm, mental health di ffi culties, learning disabilities, exploitation, abuse, trauma underpinned by poverty and inequality compounded by a further deterioration in the conditions and regimes as evidenced by overcrowding, poor prisoner-sta ff relationships and long lock up hours (23 hours per day locked in a cell is not uncommon in some of the young adult estates).” � - Inquest and Transition to Adulthood, 2015

Companies Profiting • Wates Construction (based in Surrey) • Two thirds to ‘local companies’ • 86 jobs & work experience/ apprenticeship placements • Changing Paths Programme • Ares Landscape Architects • URS Client representative • WT Partnership - Cost consultant • HLN Architects 17

Prison Industrial Complex in the UK • 1 st Private Prison in Europe, 1992 • 16,000+ people in private prisons • G4S was subsidiary of Wackenhunt Corrections Corporation (US) • Private sector finances, designs, builds & fully operates prisons

Expansion

20

What can we do?

Empty Cages Collective Get involved: • Community Action on Prison Expansion Campaign • Publications • Research • Popular Education • Prisoner Solidarity & Labour Organising • www.prisonabolition.org

Community Action on Prison Expansion www.cape-campaign.org 23

What’s your next step?