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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham

Child inmates on track after switch from drill music

Children aged from 15 to 17 are held in Feltham

(Picture: Steve Parsons/PA Archive)

Child inmates in London are being taught new types of music to wean them off violent and misogynistic drill songs, the prison watchdog revealed on Tuesday.

A report on Feltham, a young offender institution, by the chief inspector of prisons says that teaching the detainees “wider genres” is intended to “broaden their horizons” beyond a “narrow interest in music associated with violence and misogyny, such as drill”.

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