4 Institution for young offenders

Supervision and aftercare services for young offenders

Offenders aged 18 21 are also regarded as young offenders and held in YOIs.

Young offenders , Pan American Congress on Criminology, Buenos Aires, November 1979.

Young offenders detained at Executive discretion (formerly at Her Majesty's pleasure )

Female inmates and young offenders are separated from adult male inmates.

(a) Introducing multi media learning centres in all institutions for young offenders

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Children aged 15 18 are generally held in Prison Service Young Offenders Institutions (YOIs).

Primary and trade schools for people in young offenders institutions and youth hospices, by the Minister of Justice

In Latin America, community based programmes were established in three countries as alternatives to the imprisonment of young offenders.

Young offenders in custody are also subject to the Young Offender Institution Rules 1988 which seek to follow, as closely as possible, the terms of the United Nations Rules.

It further stressed that young offenders under 16 should not be in prison and should be provided education and reintegration.

The programme aims to strengthen the skills of the workforce and to reduce the recidivism rate, especially among young offenders.

They provide an additional option for the courts when sentencing young offenders who are in need of a short term residential rehabilitation programme.

He emphasized that specialized knowledge would be required for visits to detention centres housing young offenders and mental health facilities for psychiatric patients.

Sentenced female juveniles are held in establishments which hold not only female young offenders aged 15 21 but also women aged 21 and over.

5. Some of the disposals available for young offenders provide the offender with the opportunity to make reparation to the victim directly or indirectly.

This Act applies to children under 14 years of age and young persons (of or over 17 years of age), and contains measures whereby the courts and social welfare system may respond to young offenders.

These focus on, among other aspects, legislative reform, capacity building within the criminal justice system and improving the conditions under which young offenders are incarcerated.

It consolidated provisions of the Young Offenders (British Columbia) Act and youth provisions of the Correction Act into a comprehensive provincial statute written specifically for youth.

Where formal charges are unavoidable and the offender is convicted, there are now more possibilities for the judge to exert a reforming influence on young offenders.

6. There are programmes in establishments designed to help young offenders (YOs) tackle their drug addiction, offending behaviour and other behavioural problems and which provide education and training designed to go some way to making up for the knowledge and skills that the offenders lack.

Rehabilitation of offenders

(a) Young offenders should be kept in the community so far as that is practicable and consonant with the need to ensure the safety of the public

Amnesty International, News Release, Pakistan Young Offenders Taken off Death Row, AI Index ASA 33 029 2001 and Death Penalty News, AI Index ACT 001 2002, p. 2.

Rehabilitation of juvenile offenders

Young offenders between the ages of 16 and 24 admitted to this wing will not be in contact with other prisoners in the remaining part of the prison complex.

However, in December 2001 the President of Pakistan announced the commutation of the death sentences imposed on all 125 young offenders before the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance came into force.

2. One of the main priorities of the Ministry for Home Affairs this year (1996) is the establishment, within the existing national Correctional Facility, of a Young Offenders apos Wing.

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(ii) Restitution from the offenders

In all cases, intervention needs to be tailored to the changing needs of specific target groups, such as young cannabis and amphetamine type stimulants (ATS) users, injecting opioid users and offenders.

8. Currently (July 1996), the Ministry for Social Development, through its Social Welfare Planning Unit, is formulating a service plan for a secure or semi secure facility for young early offenders.

They may direct the selective prosecution of certain offenders, or systematically turn a blind eye to other offenders.

Treatment of offenders and penal reform

A. Fair restitution by the offenders

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Paragraph 93, line 5 after Offenders insert , Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders

32. The Committee notes the need for further reforms in the field of juvenile justice and treatment of young offenders to ensure full implementation of articles 37, 39 and 40 of the Convention.

And lo! they are offenders against us.

And lo! they are offenders against us.

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Extradition and the Fugitive Offenders (Torture) Order

Of this, 479 are for juvenile offenders.