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'Concern' over child jail numbers

PUBLISHED July 1, 2005
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Scotland's chief inspector of prisons has expressed concern at the number of children who have been in jail in the past 12 months.

Children are being locked up in a young offenders' institution more than a year after inspectors advised against it.
The Polmont Young Offenders' Institute near Falkirk is designed to hold 16 to 21-year-olds, but 11 children have been held there in the past year.

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