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'There are good people here, people who give a shit about you': How Oberstown is reshaping youth detention

Youth offenders in Ireland are sent to Oberstown, which has a new focus on behaviour, therapy, and providing opportunities and stability for young people who have often known nothing but chaos. Noel Baker reports from inside the facility
'There are good people here, people who give a shit about you': How Oberstown is reshaping youth detention

Damien Hernon, director, Oberstown Children Detention Campus at the launch of an exhibition of work made by young people in Oberstown Children Detention Campus at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

John* is a rapper, and the way he's talking about his near future, he might have some new lyrical material.

Now 16, he's tall, but young-looking, even though his voice could be that of someone older.

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