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November 18, 2025

Medomsley Detention Centre was open between the 1960s and 1980s and for a long time operated a 'short sharp shock' regime for young males aged between 17 and 21.

- Legal Eagle with Andrew Freckleton

Many of those detained had never been in custody before.

Some arrived having committed their first minor offence - offences which these days probably would not even go to court.

Those young males who entered the detention centre were subjected to a systemic regime of physical and sexual abuse perpetrated by officers employed at the centre.

In 2003, Neville Husband was sent to prison for sexually abusing detainees.

Leslie Johnson was also jailed in 2003 for sexual offences.

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