Custody won't rehabilitate them

On 26 October 2011, Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor of The Telegraph, told us this:

“More than half of young criminals believe nothing in prison will stop them from reoffending when they are released. Most convicted juveniles believe custody fails to rehabilitate them, according to the joint study by the prisons watchdog and the Youth Justice Board.

It also revealed that the number of serious young foreign criminals has increased by half in the last year. In 2009/10, they accounted for four per cent of all youngsters in detention but that has risen to six per cent. The proportion of black and minority ethnic young men, already over-represented, rose to 39 per cent…

Frances Done, chairwoman of the Youth Justice Board, said: ‘We are very concerned that in some areas young people's experience of custody has deteriorated although in some it has improved’.”

What? ‘Young people’ are supposed to enjoy ‘experience of custody’ now? Jesus! Hasn't anyone figured out why ‘more than half of young criminals believe nothing in prison will stop them from reoffending when they are released’ yet?