Victorian+children+in+Jail

=**Victorian children in Jail**=

It’s Tuesday morning, and today we are going to visit a young child in jail. Dennis Fairey is 10 years old, and one of the children who spend much of his time in jail. Dennis was caught when he stole a loaf of bread and a quantity of oranges apples and nuts. He does like most poor people would do, to steal things for survive, and not be hungry all the time. He got 21 days H.L. and four years Reformatory School.
 * **The punishment for children who break the law is too strict. Example if a children steals bread her or she gets 14 days imprisonment and 5 years Reformatory. Is not this to strict punishment for so young children?** || [[image:jail.JPG width="223" height="288" align="right"]] ||

Dennis is born in a poor family, and they have always had problem with food so that’s the reason why he was stealing bread. He miss all his sisters, brothers and his mom and dad, and he never gets visit from them. It’s not legally for family to come and visit their children in the jail, and it makes the punishments much harder for so young children.

Young people have always have trouble with the law, and most of the children haven’t killed anyone and they are not criminals. But they have to share prison cell with many criminal and scary people. It’s cold and nasty there, and no people want to stay there, but they have to. We could see that children were in the same cell with adult criminals, and they were hardly likely to make them lead honest lives in the future. On the other hand, they believed firmly in same punishments. Reformatory Schools are set up for offenders under 16 years old. These are very tough places, with stiff discipline enforced by frequent beatings. Young people are sent there for long sentences usually several years. However, a young offender normally still began their sentence with a brief spell in an adult prison, as these two cases show. The reason why they send young children to jail is because they want to punish the offer, to reform the offer so they will not do it again, to deter other people from the committing crimes so they can protect the public.

The punishments for young children are too hard. When they are so young they don’t know what they doing, and they get caught and have to stay in jail for a long time without there parents, and people that they recognize. They have not a choice, because they have to survive.