She later represented Thames Valley Probation at a conference in Oxford, at a youth offending centre in High Wycombe and at America Square Conference Centre in London, before addressing an international conference at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford.

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Desta Hall, a youth worker at the Lighthouse Centre in Birmingham's Newtown, was one of the first people to take part in the project after meeting a teenager who broke a window at the centre.

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The boy is being held in a youth detention centre and will appear at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday.

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But Pope Benedict held a feet-washing Mass at the same Casal del Marmo youth detention centre in Rome in 2007.

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Ruy Teixeira, a political scientist at the left-leaning Centre for American Progress, forecasts increases in the minority and youth vote, and declines in the white working-class vote in the Midwest, the rust belt and the south-west.

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