Young was 17 when he was sent to Medomsley detention centre in County Durham. He'd already had a tough life — taken into care at two, sexually and physically abused by those who were meant to look after him — but this was something different. His experience of Medomsley in has shaped, or disfigured, his life ever since. He was convicted of receiving stolen property — a watch his brother had given him; the first he had owned. The police asked if he knew where it had come from. No, he said.

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