Release of secret child punishment manual ordered
Restraint techniques including 'hair grab' detailed in manual for privately run secure training centres
The information commissioner has said that a secret prison service punishment manual used in privately run child jails should be made public after a three-year freedom of information battle. The 114-page Physical Control in Care training manual details restraint techniques authorised for use on children in secure training centres.
They include detailed descriptions of "distraction" techniques, which deliberately inflict pain and were found by the court of appeal to have been routinely unlawfully used in secure training centres.
The information commissioner's Youth Justice Board was told to publish secret parts of the manual after a complaint from the Children's Rights Alliance for England in 2007 which was endorsed by parliament's human rights committee.
MPs and peers said their were alarmed when they saw the headings of some of the redacted sections of the manual covered issues including "hair grab", "strangle on the ground", "strangle against the wall", "strangle on the ground", "kicks standing" and "kicks on the floor"
Hat-Tip to Charles Cowling for alerting me to this story.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
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