38 Secure colleges and other places for detention of young offenders etc

Part 2 Young Offenders

Detention of young offenders

38  Secure colleges and other places for detention of young offenders etc

(1)     For section 43 of the Prison Act 1952 and the italic heading before it substitute—

“Places for the detention of young offenders etc
43 Places for the detention of young offenders etc

(1)     The Secretary of State may provide the following places for the detention of young persons sentenced to detention for an offence or remanded to custody (or for the detention of a class of such persons)—

(a)     young offender institutions,

(b)     secure training centres, and

(c)     secure colleges.

(2)     In subsection (1), “young person” means a person who is aged under 18 or who was aged under 18 when convicted of the offence or remanded.

(3)     Sections 1 to 42A and Schedule A1 (“the prisons provisions”)

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