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28 Apr 2023

Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution managing behaviour by ‘locking children up’, says Chief Inspector of Prisons

The justice secretary has been urged to take immediate action – after the prisons watchdog said conditions at the Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution are “appalling”.

The prisons minister said a review was underway, and a new governor had been appointed.

We spoke to Charlie Taylor, the Chief Inspector of Prisons.