स्र्द्ध 'कानून' द्वारा

State-sponsored child abuse

द्वारा प्रदान की: जॉन Bowden
अगस्त 2010
कोई भी समाचार या इस मद के पैर में सूचीबद्ध अद्यतन

में 2004 15 year old Gareth Myatt died whilst being “restrained” by three members of staff at a privatized children’s prison called Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre in Warwickshire. उसी वर्ष में 14 वर्षीय एडम Rickwood खुद को एक निजीकरण बच्चों की जेल में फांसी लगा ली, Hassockfield सह में सिक्योर प्रशिक्षण केन्द्र. डरहम.

A Judge later ruled that the guards who “restrained” Adam shortly before his death had used unlawful force on him. छह साल बाद और इंग्लैंड के लिए बच्चों के अधिकार एलायंस की तरह कैद बच्चों और समूहों के माता पिता से निरंतर अभियान के बाद (CRAE) एक चौंकाने वाला सरकारी दस्तावेज का ब्यौरा नियंत्रण तरीकों बच्चों पर इस्तेमाल किया, कुछ के रूप में के रूप में युवा 12, सूचना की स्वतंत्रता अधिनियम के तहत हिरासत में प्रगट किया गया है.

जेल में सेवा द्वारा प्रकाशित 2005 और एक प्रतिबंधित सरकार दस्तावेज़ के रूप में वर्गीकृत, पुस्तिका प्राधिकरण के साथ सुरक्षित प्रशिक्षण केन्द्रों में कर्मचारियों को तथाकथित "संयम और आत्म रक्षा तकनीक के साथ बच्चों पर शारीरिक दर्द दण्ड प्रदान करता है. The methods of physical force described in the manual are so legally questionable that the government was prepared to be taken to a tribunal to fight against disclosure of the document despite a ruling by the Information Commissioner that it should be publicly released.

Previously government officials had even refused to provide a copy to the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee. Eventually the Ministry of Justice was forced to back down and release the document; its contents made the reticence of the Justice Ministry to shame with the public, such information all too self-explanatory.

Some of the “संयम” methods used against children in custody approved by the Justice Ministry, currently headed by the liberal-thinking Ken Clark, include ramming knuckles into the ribs of children and raking shoes down the shins. It also authorised staff to: “Drive straightened fingers into the young person’s face, and then quickly drive the straightened fingers of the same hand downwards into the young person’s groin area”. “Use an inverted knuckle into the trainee’s sternum and drive inward and upward”. “Continue to carry alternate elbow strikes to the young person’s ribs until a release is achieved”.

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संबंधित आलेख:

‘Disturbing’ secret manual reveals brutal methods used on youths
18जुलाई 2010
A government manual instructing prison staff on how to inflict pain on teenage inmates was today labelled ‘state authorised child abuse’. The Ministry of Justice was forced to release details of its approved ‘restraint and self-defence techniques’ for children in secure training centres after a lengthy freedom of information battle. — Mail On Sunday

बाल हिरासत संयम पुस्तिका में पूर्ण जारी किया है
जुलाई 2010
After three years of secrecy and resistance, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has agreed to hand over the instructors’ manual which governs the use of physical restraint in the country’s four privately-run child prisons. — Children’s Rights Alliance