"I'm 15. I was a passenger in a stolen car. I got ISSP (Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme) for 6 months, with the Youth Offending Team. Once you're on an order and you breach, you get put on something higher, so it just keeps going from there. They just keep escalating it. 'Cos I was looking after my niece I breached some of my meetings. I got a four month DTO (Detention and Training Order) but I'll do two months. You come in here for two months and you get released for two months on licence and then you're licenced, if you commit any crime, or don't go to your appointments on licence you come straight back in till the end..

I don't think I'm in here for a bad crime, no...if I get into a situation where I get mad then I'll try and walk away and resolve it myself.

What do I miss the most? My family..and my boyfriend. I had an argument with one of the staff 'cos I can't see my boyfriend...they got hold of one of my arms, the other got hold of my other, and they got hold of my legs and put my arms behind my back and then, like, put their legs around my legs and started walking, pulling me, restrained me and stripped my room and put me in it.

It's really hard because you can't have contact with people you've offended with, like my boyfriend. My other friends have got into trouble and they have been to jail...you do something wrong and you get punished for it.

My dad died when I was 10, that was the hardest bit of my life. I think my mum's done well with five kids on her own. We moved away from our other house and I got kicked out of school because I didn't really attend. It was far away and I had to set off really early in the morning. We don't have a car. My mum's boyfriend has a car but he goes to work in it...and I didn't really like the teachers, or the school itself.

It's the little things that keep adding up, which no-one understands, that's why I've been sent here.  Because if they understood and tried helping me and seeing if I should have a chance, then I wouldn't probably be in here.

When my mum comes here she gets the train and gets a taxi from the train station. I don't really like my mum spending all her money by coming here...the youth offending team said they could give her it back, but now they're saying otherwise.

It always makes me feel, like, upset, and makes me miss them even more, but I just try and think that I've only got, like, a month left in here, and then I'll be out. Like, it's not really my choice to go in there and get locked in there. It's someone else's choice and when you've had your choice taken away from you, where you have to go and get locked in a room at night...then yeah, that is bad.

I miss people even more and start thinking about when I get out. I don't really know what would make me reoffend because I'm thinking of how much I hate it here now and how much I don't want to be in here now, so I think that when I get out I don't think there'll be any reason for me to reoffend."