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Educate Young Offenders

Submitted on Friday 12th August 2011

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Educate Young Offenders

Additional Information

Young offenders committing crimes of violence, robbery and drug dealing should automatically receive the maximum possible sentence.
This sentence can be reduced by a fix amount of time relative to the levels of formal qualifications they pass through colleges built into the prison system.
The majority of young offenders display low level of of education and lack qualification that makes them employable.
Currently the main education available within the prison system is how to become a better criminal, give young offenders the opportunity to leave the prison system with greater hope than they entered it.


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