More news to make you forget any nostalgia for New Labour you may have had. It turns out the Ministry of Justice has written a torture manual on how to restrain children in private prisons, according to the Observer:
Some of the restraint and self-defence measures approved by the Ministry of Justice include ramming knuckles into ribs and raking shoes down the shins. Other extraordinary passages in the previously secret manual, Physical Control in Care, authorise staff to:
â– “Use an inverted knuckle into the trainee’s sternum and drive inward and upward.”
â– “Continue to carry alternate elbow strikes to the young person’s ribs until a release is achieved.”
â– “Drive straight fingers into the young person’s face, and then quickly drive the straightened fingers of the same hand downwards into the young person’s groin area.”
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Published by the HM Prison Service in 2005 and classified as a restricted government document, the manual guides staff on what restraint and self-defence techniques are authorised for use on children as young as 12 in secure training centres. The centres are purpose-built facilities for young offenders up to the age of 17 and run by private firms under government contracts.
Locking up children as young as twelve is not enough for these sadists, they have to be handed over to for profit jails to be tortured there because obviously keeping order normally is too difficult or too expensive for these fuckers. And it wouldn’t have come to light if some of the poor kids tortured like this hadn’t killed themselves in desperation, leaving their parents devastated and looking for answers. One more piece of the sordid lawandorder legacy New Labour has left behind.