Almost 900 weapons seized in a year at Yorkshire young offender institution

Almost 900 weapons were seized in one year from children detained in a young offender institution in the north of England, a prisons watchdog has found. In its annual report published on Friday into HM young offender institution Wetherby in West Yorkshire, the institution’s independent monitoring board found that children were in possession of a range of improvised weapons. The children told IMB they carried the weapons because they felt unsafe behind bars. In the report, Catherine Porter, the monitoring board’s chair, said: “Wetherby continues to hold a small but challenging cohort of young people. With 893 weapons found during

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