The first inspection of a secure unit for young women has concluded the prison is performing well, despite problems in some areas. The chief inspector of prisons, Anne Owers, found the Josephine Butler Unit, at Downview prison in Sutton, Surrey, is “safe, calm and well-ordered”, but criticised the routine use of strip searching, and the design of the unit. The unit is one of three commissioned by the Youth Justice Board specifically to hold juvenile female offenders separately from adult offenders and more vulnerable young women. Most inmates are 17, and the unit also holds 18-year-olds near the end of...