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Government's decision to lock kids up in solitary confinement in a bid to control coronavirus in prisons is ‘cruel,’ Labour charges
UN torture expert Nils Melzer blasts ‘inhumane’ practice
A general view of a separation cell in the Dumyat Wing at Cornton Vale prison in Stirling
by Bethany Rielly
THE government’s “cruel” and “extreme” policy of locking up detained children for 23 hours a day is the result of ministers’ “incompetent failure” to control coronavirus, Labour said today.
Under measures intended to contain the spread of Covid-19, youth detention facilities have been allowed to keep children as young as 12 in their cells for all but 40 minutes a day.
The practice has been described by United Nations torture expert Nils Melzer as “inhumane.”
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