"Anger at decision on youth jail brutality allegations" 

     Special report: prisons

     Vikram Dodd
     Wednesday July 11, 2001
     The Guardian 

     The crown prosecution service was yesterday accused by the
     Howard League for Penal Reform of "leaving children
     unprotected" after it announced none of the prison officers
     alleged to have beaten up offenders at Portland youth jail would
     stand trial. 

     Last August, Dorset police were called in to investigate
     allegations that officers at Portland had brutalised inmates over
     a 14 year period, carrying out physical assaults and terrorising
     inmates in their charge. 

     The CPS yesterday confirmed it had decided there was
     insufficient evidence for any prison officer to stand trial. Sources
     with knowledge of the investigation told the Guardian it was
     hampered by a number of prison officers refusing to cooperate
     with detectives. 


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