A man who was sent to young offenders institutions in the early 1970s told an inquiry how he was forced to “slop out” and was held in custody with sex offenders at an adult prison when aged under 16.
The witness, known by the pseudonym Jim, told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry in Edinburgh he was sent to a children’s home through “no fault of his own” after his parents split up when he was around 12.
