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ITV’s televisual experiment has its merits. But as a borstal boy in the 70s, the punitive regime failed me Review: Bring Back Borstal The shocking failure rate of modern young offender institutions is ...

The first borstal opened 100 years ago this week, establishing a method of dealing with troubled boys that lasted much of the past century. Here, Ron Lovelock recalls how he came to spend two years in ...

In some ways Borstal are as quintessentially British as Ray Winstone battering Phil Daniels with a couple of snooker balls in a sock. They're a supergroup formed by UK hardcore and metal veterans, the ...