Call to stop imprisoning children

CHILDREN’S ombudsman Emily Logan has backed calls in a new report for an end to the locking up of children in prisons.

Ms Logan welcomed recommendations in the report that her office be given the power to investigate complaints from children held in St Patrick’s Institution.

The report by the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) said there were 241 committals of boys aged 16 and 17 to the Dublin prison in 2008.