(in the UK) a criminal from 18 to 20 years of age.
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- Across regions, young adult offenders are turning over at the greatest rate in federal institutions.
- A new strategy to improve the way prisons handle young adult offenders was called for by the jails watchdog today.
- The young adult offenders are assigned to a young adult offenders facility.
- In 2004, it was estimated that the costs of crime attributable to young adult offenders was £19.2 billion.
- The Prison Service has tried to mix young adult offenders in with older criminals in the system.