It’s called ‘Education Behind Bars – all children should go to prison’.
Shrewsbury Prison has launched an educational programme that will get children behind bars to show them the reality of crime in the UK.
It comes as crime rates among young people are increasing through knife crime, cyber attacks and theft.
Education Behind Bars is the first programme of its kind, being delivered in real heritage-led prisons to highlight the shocking truth of how hard life is behind bars and how prisons have changed over the centuries to what they are now.
It’s been created by a team of specialists in education and history.
The programme is aligned with the national curriculum and has been designed to support learning through thought provoking exercises and activities.
