UK boot camps

Title

UK boot camps

Genre

Interview

TX Date

6 Feb 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:00:31

Description

Interview with the Assistant General Secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers Harry Fletcher, on the proposal of Home Secretary Michael Howard to introduce American-style boot camps to rehabilitate young British offenders. He says a similar experiment in the 1980s was a failure for several reasons.

Contributors

Harry Fletcher

Keywords

National Association of Probation Officers; Young offenders; Youth detention centres; Michael Howard

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