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Undercovering a pretty and G4 is a private security firm isn't for teenagers, right? Undercovering a prison for teenagers Home to these 12 to 18 year olds I would be such a star. He deserves to keep custody officers controlling by menace Even brutality I Understand that these are prisoners, but they are still children at the end of the day I don't think you should be able to work in a younger offenders prison Unless you have children if you don't have kids You wouldn't be a younger offenders prison like you're more likely to like not give up not care You're not more likely to not care that they're children and not realize it One of the world's biggest security firms G4 s is paid millions to look after these young inmates But not like this I See to me like that's that that type of behavior You would never do that in a real prison Like this guy right here in the blue you would never do this to a real prisoner because he might get his get back He might spend a block on you Like you're he's a weirdo to me. That's weird. He's weird If it's around adults and authority figures That behave in such a manner It's not gonna fix him. It's gonna make it worse Tonight we ask is G4s failing some of the most vulnerable youngsters in the country Medway Secure Training Center near Rochester in Kent This is a prison not like other prisons It's home to around 70 boys and girls age 12 to 18 who are accused or convicted of crimes from theft to murder Good little bit of journalism from the BBC finally Here to investigate or did they normally The teenagers are being mistreated bullied and even abused by custody officers I've got a job with G4s who run medway as a custody officer the inmates here are called trainees There's up to eight in each unit looked after by two or three custody officers like me So he went undercover disguised as a prison officer, they're sent here specifically because they're vulnerable or at risk They're also challenging This is Billy not his real name He's 14 years old He's been in and out of trouble for most of his life And is now at medway because he attacked someone He's just arrived from a secure children's home, which couldn't cope with him I bet you 60% at 70 80% of the people in here young offenders are coming from single-parent homes or no-parent homes It's very important as a man to be in your kids life Rather is a whether it's a daughter or a son is very important. I don't care what nobody say I don't care what type of relationship you've got with your baby mama. I don't care what type of relationship You want with your baby mama or that you don't like Your kid ain't got nothing to do with it because this is what happens As much as he drives me to the brink of going I just can't do it And you know why that they show this much aggression to male authority figures because they never had one growing up And any type of male authority figure that ever steps in is trying to step in over aggressively Yeah, I remember I was one of these little kids So I know I know I tell you exactly what it what the problem was when when people tried to step in like you Oh, I don't have a father figure. I was not raised by men. I was raised by women So a man talking to me in an authoritative way You're gonna have to pipe down you're gonna have to let your ego go and talk to me nice Because you're not gonna get the results you want if you come in aggressive. This is very simple You got to know your personnel just like you when you when you go to a job interview You know what do you know what the you know what's going on when you talking to these kids know they background If they do not have father figures, you cannot come aggressive. They're not going to respond to it nicely Simple it's still a little boy in there who is just lonely Doesn't know what to do. It's pretty sad really It's Medway's job to keep Billy and the other young inmates say provide high-quality education and rehabilitation Before starting work at Medway G4S provides all new recruits with eight weeks of basic training There are three main grades of custody officer training center assistants like me Team leaders and the most senior duty operations managers We're taught that we must keep youngsters in our care safe and that if there's trouble we may have to restrain them But only if absolutely necessary If we use excessive force we can be disciplined or even prosecuted Prosecution out of the training room and in the prison. It's a different world It's my 13th shift and I'm in a classroom I'm waiting with a female custody officer and three inmates for the next class to start One of them is 14 year old Billy He's shouting at Gareth a team leader who's outside in the corridor with Chris a duty operations manager Gareth comes to the door and tries to get in Then it looks like Billy may be trying to reach for the female officer's radio or keys. I Don't expect what happens next First response means emergency He restrains Billy and I have to help Other officers arrived Including Chris the most senior officer present. He's the one with the red watch He has his fingers on Billy's throat During training we were repeatedly told to always protect. Yo, he has him like this in a headlock It airways Choking anyone is never allowed Dr. Andrew McDonald is one of the most published experts on how to handle challenging behavior Including physical. How's this not child abuse? Like they say these dudes whoever these dudes are these g4 officers that are violating the Violating the handbook and violating these children. This is child abuse. I Don't it's okay that I mean they're in prison, but it's still child abuse restraint If a normal adult outside prison did this to a child a bad child or somebody was like, oh man He's this he's he's misbehaving. It's child abuse still He's got his fingers right in there. I can actually see them in there. There's applying pressure there I can't breathe He's telling you he can't breathe. So let go of him That to me is an example of actually excessive force while applying restraint Hurting inmates in this way is against the rules It may also make these youngsters more likely to reoffend If I was a young person in that situation, I just don't hold them like that. I'd be pretty angry Also, these people are role models. So what they're doing almost Makes it legitimate for those young people to also be violent and aggressive Billy it's being forcibly taken to his cell This is a 14 year old kid right probably hasn't hit puberty has no male strength has no real There's no real like Like you're not you're really not intimidated by this because he cannot harm you Well by just swinging on you. You're a grown man. You're pushing 40 your hairline is receding. I see it And this is Yeah, you were definitely bullied in school Whoever this guy is with the red and black tie with the red like he was definitely Kids 14 he still has baby fat. I don't know how much weight Garret's putting on Billy's arm and wrist all of it But it looks painful Well, that's a 14 year old probably very traumatized boy The fact that these kids have actually been involved with crime some of them don't make commit some serious crimes Doesn't make them any less human It takes the team of custody officers nearly eight minutes to get Billy into his cell This is like over overkill for sure. They overdid their job He acts tough, but Billy has mental health issues and behavioral difficulties So he has documented mental health issues and this is it only gets worse At the end of it all he looks broken He's scared. He can't Can't breathe, you know, he's crying And you see a child who's literally just kind of in manhandled Excessive use of force. It was not necessary at all. I didn't see the necessity in this I know when these children Wines you up the way was winding that officer up. It can be hard But they are there to do it. So this Billy's mom I hope she's soon the F out of them Bob and to help that child to rehabilitate and I can't see how they're gonna do that Seeing that just completely blows everything I thought out the water Gareth the team leader who began the restraint tells us how he's going to justify it Billy may have been reaching for the radio, but he wasn't trying to grab Gareth Billy was trying to defend himself You know what's crazy? Was trying to have been reaching for the radio, but he wasn't trying to grab Gareth Billy was trying to defend himself Some similar happened to me my sophomore year my junior year. There was an off-duty cop that worked at my high school meathead Definitely did steroids like one of those And I had talked to my Dean already She said if you ever having some issues or you ever angry and you want to leave school Just leave your junior. You're almost a senior like Yeah, cuz we can look we could do that at my school. We could just leave whenever we wanted to cool So one day I was arguing with my girl I don't I don't even I didn't even have a class next. I had an empty mod. No class That's what a my modules were 15 minutes. I think four modules were a class A 40 minute class right 30 an hour class. I had an empty modder, too So I just left I was I was walking I was gonna walk across the street to the mall the mall was right there So I was almost off the school property security guard comes He's like, oh, what's wrong? I'm like nothing. It's like I see arguing with the girl. I was like, yeah, that's my girlfriend You see people arguing with their girlfriends all the time in school And then I told him I was like, yeah, my Dean said if I need to leave if I'm angry I could just leave you can call her and that's and I told him it's not so don't tell me what to do. I'm like, mm-hmm Okay, so he grabs like I'm like, all right, I don't even want to go there with you I continue to walk. They're not supposed to grab you in high school. They're not supposed to grab Security guys are not supposed to grab you Not supposed to touch you they're not supposed to initiate any contact unless you do unless they're defending themselves So this guy I got my backpack on he you know how the top of your backpack got that little Hook right there. He grabs the top of my backpack and remember in high school. I'm I'm still this big I'm a big I'm not this big. I'm this tall And my junior year in high school. I was like six one I was six one. I was like 190 180 or something but I was pretty skinny. So He pulls me and then I like turn around just to turn around and get him off my backpack And I'm talking like this my pinky grazed his lip like this I I could I right hand the god. I swear to god my pinky grazed his lip like this He got on the walkie-talkie and said I've just been I've just been struck by a student I'm like, bro I just laugh I just I get up against the wall. I'm like, I ain't even for the fight you know Like but he's trying to man handle me, but I'm six one But I'm I'm six one. I lift weights. I lift. I'm big. I'm in there I don't lift weights. I'm naturally strong six one and he's a meathead jot like he's in the gym all the time He's trying to man handle me and I'm looking I'm and I'm just holding my ground My center of gravity is just better than whatever he was trying to do And I'm making it very hard for him to move me And I can see it in his eyes his ego is his pride Is so hurt that he lifts weights every day and he cannot move this 16 year old kid I'm like, oh man, dude So and I'm like I tell them I'm like Yo, don't you guys have cameras? There's cameras. I've never struck that I got expelled from school for this For this situation. I got I got expelled For this situation And I'm like, there's cameras. Why am I getting expelled? I didn't hit this dude Y'all can clearly see me walking away and him grabbing my backpack That's enough right there. Y'all don't need to see if I hit him He grabbed my backpack. So at any effort, I'm defending myself. Why are you grabbing my backpack if I'm clearly walking away from Like come on So and me like man, the school wasn't cahoots with everybody they didn't want them I went to keep in mind I'm I went to a predominantly white school. So I'm not saying nothing about the teachers. I'm not saying nothing about the students but but Them handling like the security guards there were bad man. They couldn't They didn't know how to handle like what I came I was coming from like Evanston predominantly black You know I'm saying north side chicago predominantly black Coming to a white school There was no, you know, I was like one of the first People to come over there It was just weird. They're all weird G4s investigates Keep in mind my junior year I had turned it around. I was on honor roll my junior year I was doing all the things that I was supposed to be doing my junior year They ain't getting out. They don't care Gareth and two other custody officers say the restraint was justified You didn't see anything until it happened or No, not really It literally happened in like 30 seconds. Yeah, you're gonna stick together to continue our investigation I feel I have to stick to the story too Three weeks later Gareth is allowed back to work Before broadcast we informed the authorities about our evidence G4s currently runs England's three secure training centers But later this year it will stop running one of them Rainsbrook. Oh man after man, I can I can tell y'all more about this guy, man That security guard that same security guard that did that to me. He was a pedo So I promise you like I literally was walking to class one day. I was late and it was this girl named I ain't gonna name her but like she was she always used to wear Like a little the colorful two tops the shirt I don't know what they called and then she used to wear jean dresses The jean skirts It's this guy. I seen him running full speed To catch her walking up the stairs to look up. I'm like this guy is You're weird like I saw I had knew he was a weirdo already And I think that's what really made him do that type stuff to me. That's what made him take it there You know what I'm saying? Because he knows that I know about him I wish I remembered his name bro because I like thinking back on it is angry at me In spectra of prisons found evidence of abuse G4s still has the contract here at medway. Oh, I named the school. This is Niles north high school I had still hate them to this day. There's nothing that Niles north high school could ever do to make me not like There was some good teachers in there man. Mr. Chan. Shout out mr. Chan. That was my history teacher He made school worth coming to to this day. I love that dude and he don't even know that he made school worth me going there I went to school just because mr. Chan was cool salute to him There are some deep questions to be asked about what was happening here that go beyond Individual star behaving badly. Also, it's got really concerning echoes Of what we found at Rainesbrook secure training center Many of the staff I meet are okay A few are amazing But some really worry me like this man Anthony He was an ordinary officer like me for 18 months before being promoted to team leader I'm supposed to learn from him Here he's boasting openly in the kitchen about hurting a 14-year-old child That's the exact same person that that officer was at that school It's not just Anthony After work at the staff area another team leader also seems to revel in aggression Fingers in the throat Ben his wrist up is that Wait, that's not pissing me off. You little What was he doing? Been rude It's Anthony though who talks most often about hurting the inmates Where Are you going? Yeah Yeah a little bit I laugh a long telling you a lot of this is mid the Ego, that's why if you don't have kids, you shouldn't be working around kids me personally. That's my fault And so he'll continue to trust me, but it's not funny I'm skeptical about these claims until I see Anthony in particular with kids with my own eyes He can be an effective. Is this Billy again team leader, but he can also be a bully Well It's 14 year old Billy who was restrained in the classroom who Anthony picks on a lot I'd reported to Anthony that Billy hadn't cleaned his room It's uncomfortable to see because I've got a good relationship with these lads and they're still kind of laughing and joking But you can tell that they're uncomfortable. I mean essentially it's just bullying bullying kids And bullying them into doing what you want This is another male team leader Matt Billy is difficult and sometimes attacks staff, but it's beginning to look like he's being targeted I was definitely being targeted three times in the last 15 minutes three different staff members Matt tells me he's looking for an excuse to hurt Billy and tries to enlist my help Billy knows what will happen if he gives Matt that excuse To protect the youngsters and staff at medway CCTV cameras record pictures, but not sound except in places like bedrooms classrooms and in the kitchen Like here when Billy mocks Liverpool football club So what does matter hooligan or something like what what's going on? Then this happens He actually kind of pushed him shoved him down Got his thumbs into charlie's Um Back of his neck and then put one of his hands on the top of his head and kind of dug it in Like I get it. Okay. Like football is a you know, I'm saying But don't touch like it ain't that this is a 14 year old kid This is what I'm talking about these people have no data He Matt cannot have a child because he wouldn't be doing this to a child because if somebody did this to his child He would be you know, I'm saying like on 10 Like that's why I'm glad I'm a dad now. I just hope I just hope all of these teachers And all of these people in put power just know what's going on and I'm in florida don't play with me The rules is different in florida. He got like part of his knuckle and kind of dug it into the back of his head like around there There are no cameras here and Matt knows it His inappropriate behavior is hidden I find it harder to deal with them the violence if I'm honest I mean you think of Abusing these situations and you think it'd be sort of one member of staff Slightly digging a child when nobody else is around but looking at this it's so openly obvious that it is just a day to day Management strategy for them for sure. If he was a full grown adult, they would never go working like adult prisons these dudes Which is despicable It's bedtime Because at the end of the day in an adult prison, you know what the adult's going to do to do? Sugar cattle You got me, you know, that's what's gonna happen Billy up in his cell It sounded like Billy was in pain, but I didn't know why After the late shift at the staff area outside Anthony explains I just keep grabbing it Anthony knew Billy had an injured hand The other custody officers listen and apparently do nothing Key line of defense He's a professional staff Who are prepared to say This isn't right here. I'm not happy with this. I'm prepared to do that It takes staff to blow the whistle And you have to ask yourself the question about why did nobody say look I'm not happy with what's going on here Especially these female officers, they might have kids or something like the older ones like what's going on? Somebody they probably blew the whistle like he just said G4S has had the government contract to run medway since 1998 Last year it was paid more than 10 million pounds My colleagues now trust me. They give me their take on how that contract works G4S gets fined if it officially loses control in any way Like trainees fighting Anthony tells me some staff have found a simple way around it That means they don't report it If you have an incident with four kids, it will get split up into two separate teams That's how they do it, so they don't get fined Anthony claims some duty operations managers have pressured him to lie to avoid fines He tells me that once even when three groups of lads had a fight it wasn't reported. It was covered up And what it didn't go down is It never does. Why didn't unit jumps a kid to dive it down? No, because it's classed you've lost control And we're not here to lose control. No Yeah, I was told that because I was misreporting to avoid fines could be fraud It could be is definitely fraud. I think that is a very serious allegation And I think that something that needs to be specifically investigated And I wonder what has happened since this this interview certainly if that was done with the knowledge of managers at G4S Then I think that would That would be a very serious thing to add to Very serious thing for them to have to answer. I think it would be very disturbing I don't know is whether that in itself is something that needs the attention of the police I've now been undercover at medway for two months Today is my last shift This is Lee not his real name He's 16 years old and an orphan He's my See what I said So billy has no father. It looks this would seem to be This guy has no mother or father Common dad both died before he was 10 years old He has a conviction for robbery and came here from care The second he got up in the morning. I knew he was out of character And I could tell that he was really sad and he's been he's been down for the past couple of weeks This week is the anniversary of his mom's death Earlier Lee was rude to Anthony Anthony's still cross about it L ego from anthony once again Letting a 16 year old who is a 16 year old orphan. What's going on y'all? Who is currently It's his mother's anniversary of it like come on, bro Anthony needs some counseling No, I'm blurry hold on Sadly Anthony's right Lee has a history of self-harm He's treated in his cell put on constant monetary and his room is stripped The last thing to be removed is a towel Lee doesn't want to let go of it My camera only gets a glimpse of what happens, but I see it clearly Anthony came from behind and Pulled him in a reverse choke And pulled him down onto the bed and choked him from behind Really really hard and then he kind of slammed him onto the bed quite hard Anthony needs to be prosecuted in a court of law He needs time. He doesn't need a suspension Doesn't need a suspended sentence. He doesn't need a fine. He doesn't need to be put on tag He needs to be in there with them dudes It need to be put inside with them other with them prisoner You know it wasn't it wasn't kind of easy to be you know witnessing it A duty operations manager called Gareth takes charge of the restraint But this grieving boys treatment doesn't get any better Listen yeah We're gonna stand him up. Yeah For over three minutes start physically restraining Okay, stop there. He's saying bend his wrist. Yeah, and then he does bend his wrist, right? I mean, it's pretty obvious what you're saying there, which is that the more you struggle and fight The more it's gonna hurt It's as simple as that Um, again, that's an improper use Of those kind of techniques The restraint continues and liars once again on the floor That so much be going through my mind that I can't say when I be watching this type of stuff That's why I just be having a straight face like I'd be like man, listen It's just an abuse of power and it's abuse of methods and child abuse When it's over just like Billy leaves alone in his cell In the staff room Gareth and two other custody Gareth and two other custody officers are gonna be acting like victims Officers concoct a story to justify their actions Okay, there's no cctv in the bedrooms. So it will be their word against the trainees They tell me what to write down Anthony the meat head Stumbled to Anthony looks like he works out and he's on gear How did Anthony stumble to the ground from From from from the I forgot his name the orphan child No offense, but that's what I remember. How Did they be like who reviews these who reads these papers and be like, okay, that sounds plausible That sounds believable like bro Anthony wasn't assaulted yet. I'm told to say that he was When I won't go along with it they try another approach I won't say Lee hit Anthony so they decide I couldn't have seen everything But I did I was at the door throughout He appears to think it's funny Anthony describes what he did to Lee move by move Yeah G4s haven't responded to us about our allegations Didn't have allegations when they were on camera claimed the filming was illegal and that the program shouldn't be broadcast G4s told BBC news They thoroughly met their staff and that external monitors had not raised any concerns These are extremely Shocking allegations and have no part in our business or in any Establishment that looks after young people We were unaware of these allegations until the panorama sent them to us and took immediate action To report them to the police and local authority G4s is paid nearly 140 000 pounds per year per inmate 108 youngsters left here between April 2012 and April 2013 Nearly two-thirds reoffended within a year I've never give up I can't Can't have people treat him like that just because he's in an institution for doing wrong To try and take him the right way is the only way to get him fixed and If he's around adults and authority figures That behave in such a manner It's not going to fix him. He's going to make him worse Since we informed G4s of our evidence They have suspended seven custody officers Gareth who unnecessarily restrained Billy Duty operations manager chris who choked him And team leaders matt and antony who were bullying him Four people Billy has finished his sentence and is out of medway Kent police have launched an investigation Children are currently not being sent here That's good That's good, man I mean That's a start at least man. That's that's disturbing I'm telling you man I'ma tell y'all when I get off this tell a little like comment subscribe turn it up on some guy