Inmates Climb Walls--and Briton Is Angry
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LONDON — A British politician called on the government Tuesday to halt a confidence-building training program for young prisoners--teaching them to climb walls.
Marcus Fox, a member of Parliament, said the training, conducted on a specially built artificial rock surface at a youth custody center, is “tuition on how to escape in five easy lessons--and all by courtesy of Her Majesty’s government.”
He called it a “crazy practice” and said he had written to Home Secretary Leon Brittan urging him to have the lessons stopped.
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