youth custody
Minor's legal confinement
Youth custody is the legal detention of minors who have been convicted of crimes or are awaiting trial.
In the UK, it refers specifically to sentences served in young offender institutions, secure training centres, or secure children's homes.
The term emphasizes that juvenile detention operates under different rules than adult imprisonment: He was sentenced to two years in youth custody.
- juvenileYoung person or animal
- detentionTemporary official holding
- detention centrePlace for confining people
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- young offenderMinor who breaks law
remand · prison · sentence · criminal justice · court · judge · cell · locked · institution · reform · rehabilitation · second chance · secure unit · locked up · behind bars · warden · bars · visiting
- youth justicejuvenile court, juvenile courts, juvenile detention, juvenile probation, juvenile offenders
- correctionscorrection, corrections, fix, fixing, rectification
- sentencessimple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, declarative, interrogative
youth, custody, younger, youngest, youthful, youthfulness, custodial, custodian, custodianship