Leading doctors have called on the government to abolish the solitary confinement of children and young people in the youth justice system, warning that it can have a “profound” impact on their health.
Nearly 40 per cent of boys in British jails are estimated to have spent time in solitary confinement, which is defined under international human rights law as “the confinement of prisoners for 22 hours or more a day without meaningful human contact”.
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