Watchdog ‘shocked’ after male prison guards forcibly strip girl inmate

Holding some of the most “challenging” children in the country, the watchdog likened the “complex group” of youngsters behind bars there to the equivalent of being as dangerous as men in category A adult jails

Sign at Wetherby Young Offenders' Institution.

A girl held in a British young offenders’ institution was pinned down and forcibly stripped by a group of male prison guards, according to a watchdog.

Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor said he was “deeply shocked” at the findings, which revealed the “incredibly vulnerable” teenage prisoner had been restrained and had her clothes removed by “multiple men” on two occasions at YOI Wetherby in West Yorkshire.