ITV’s televisual experiment has its merits. But as a borstal boy in the 70s, the punitive regime failed me Review: Bring Back Borstal The shocking failure rate of modern young offender institutions is ...

Adapting Brendan Behan’s “Borstal Boy” — the legendary Irish playwright’s memoir of his teen stint as an Irish Republican Army prisoner in a British juvenile facility — as a film seems like the most ...

BORSTAL is back on the cards for wayward teenagers to stop them ending up in a life of crime. It is among the ideas ministers are pursuing after looking at how other countries have cut the number of ...

The first borstal opened 100 years ago this week, establishing a method of dealing with troubled boys that lasted much of the past century. Here, Ron Lovelock recalls how he came to spend two years in ...

The children’s commissioner says vulnerable youngsters should stay in care until they’re 25 – and I know from having a mentor that human support can set you on the right path, for good I still find ...

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Shikusa Borstal Prison for juvenile offenders aged 15-18 years. [Duncan Ocholla]. More than 50 years since the first borstal institution was opened in Kenya to care for young offenders, lack of staff ...

As an adult, Irishman Brendan Behan was known for two things, the vivid plays he wrote (“The Quare Fellow,” “The Hostage”) and the commotions he caused when he was inebriated, which was often. A ...

It was never billed as a holiday camp, but when ITV bosses recreated 1930s Borstal conditions for a month-long “social experiment” series they didn’t expect a third of the participants to quit in the ...

Borstal have shown what a force they are becoming after both their 1st and 2nd XI sides claimed success in the Medway Post-Covid League. The decision of the Kent League to scrap the 2020 season meant ...

Borstal has become a loaded word. We now associate the prison regime that characterised it with the phrase “Who’s the daddy?” from the controversial film Scum, which featured shocking scenes of ...