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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

My Lords, I can say only that I endorse without qualification every word that the noble Baroness said so brilliantly this evening. I simply have one question for my noble friends, which I hope they will address. They have repeatedly said that the Government are committed to the rehabilitation of offenders. How are we going to tackle the rehabilitation of the young if they either acquire a badge of honour, and therefore begin to go down the road of institutionalised crime because they have won acknowledgement and standing in society as an offender, or are alienated and hurt in all kinds of deep psychological ways by the process to which they have been subjected? Of course the noble Baroness is right: a very high proportion of those children have been through hell in their own lives. We do not start putting that right by having their stories ignorantly and distortedly paraded all over the media.