Child’s treatment in prison declared unlawful

Treatment of a child in a London prison has been deemed unlawful

by Harry Albright 14th July 2017

A boy who was isolated in his cell for months on end in a London prison was treated unlawfully because he was denied sufficient access to education, the High Court ruled on 4 July. As reported in the Friend on 17 March, the boy spent more than 100 days isolated from his peers and was deprived of adequate education. The child, identified in court documents as ‘AB’, was locked in his cell for over twenty-two hours a day for more than fifteen days at a stretch.