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Welcome to U R BOSS!

If you are a young person or a young adult who has experience of being in CUSTODY or of the CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, this is YOUR website.

U R BOSS is a project led by young people for young people that is part of the Howard League for Penal Reform. It’s a project for you and any young people and young adults aged 10 to 24 years old that are or have been involved in the criminal justice system and may have been in some form of custody.

“The UK government is failing in its most basic duty to keep the children in its care safe”  

Read the Howard League for Penal Reform submission to the UN Committee Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

“Routine malpractices of restraint, strip-searching and segregation amount to systemic cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of children”

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Why does nobody talk to us?

Last month U R Boss the Howard League’s campaign to place young people in and released from custody at the heart of policy making was working in a young adults prison. U R Boss worked with over 30 young men between the age of 18 – 21 to learn their thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of our criminal justice system, their hopes for release, the special needs of young adults to successfully transition into the community and what it is that they would change about prison life if they had the power to.

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