Behind the Crime by Colin Ferguson

Author:Colin Ferguson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2019-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

The Campaign

While I was there, I became more involved with the National Association of Probation Officers and actually served on the National Professional Committee. In relation to my work, I had become very concerned by the fact that children of fourteen were being remanded to the prison, even though they were too young for any sentence to take them there. The hospital wing which is where they were held was fraught with dangers for vulnerable youngsters.

My resolution at our National conference about this was seized upon by the press and ultimately resulted in an all-party agreement in Parliament, banning the practise of under sixteen year olds being remanded to an adult prison.

A further opportunity came as I was a member of the Howard League and was invited to join a working party looking at the ‘Street Offences Act.’

Our proposal for the Act to be repealed and replaced with an Act relating to nuisance, which for prostitution would apply equally to men, sadly never saw the light of day.

But it was time to move again and this time it was to my home patch, Battersea.

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