The Government has agreed to pay £31,500 in compensation after a 15-year-old boy with serious mental health problems was kept in solitary confinement in a London prison for weeks on end.
The boy, known only as AB, was subject to “inhuman or degrading treatment” and was locked alone in his cell for more than 23 hours a day for at least the first 55 days of his detention in Feltham prison, according to the Howard League for Penal Reform, who represented him.
