@thinkstime: SHOULD BRITAIN BRING BACK BORSTALS FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS? 🇬🇧⚖️ A fourteen year old smashes a shop window for the third time and walks out of court with barely a warning. Youth crime is rising, and patience is running out. One side says bring back borstals — tough detention, hard work, strict discipline — because only real consequences stop a teenager becoming a career criminal. The other side says borstals failed before and were closed for a reason: lock young offenders up together and they come out worse, not better. For ordinary families it is the smashed bus shelter, the snatched phone, the shopkeeper locking up early. If tough detention works, streets get safer. If it fails, we spend millions and nothing changes. So where do you stand? A tough lesson that turns young lives around, or a failed idea from the past? Comment YES or NO below — and tell us why. 💬👇 #KratosHawking #UKDebate #BritishValues #YouthCrime #Borstals #UKNews #Debate #Britain #HaveYourSay

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