Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison

a day ago by klu9 to c/nottheonion

Prison officers’ union calls for immediate end to practice at HMYOI Wetherby over fears for child and animal welfare

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Setiyeti93 77 points a day ago

"children's prison"

And it's the use of ferrets that's causing an issue.

What a time to be alive.

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FishFace 16 points a day ago

Blame the editor; there's no such thing, legally speaking.

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Jessicat 5 points a day ago

How do you mean?

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FishFace 4 points 20 hours ago

The UK has young offender institutes, which are not, legally speaking, prisons. I would expect someone writing headlines to use the official terminology.

Separately I am assuming that the OP isn't perturbed by the concept of punishing children (over some threshold age, at least) for crimes, which might include this kind of punishment, but takes issue with the image conjured by the word prison (which may be wrong, and only they can say)

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SpookyBogMonster 4 points 14 hours ago

The UK has young offender institutes, which are not, legally speaking, prisons

So... What's the legal distinction? Because that just sounds like "Child Prison" with extra syllables

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FishFace 1 point 13 hours ago

I am not an expert so am not the person to ask.

In a way it is a child prison with extra syllables, but as I said, my guess is that the OP doesn't object in principle to a 17 year old being locked up if they commit a serious enough crime.

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