Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Frances Cook, supported Miss E's case.
The Howard League for Penal Reform said the situation at Channings Wood, near Newton Abbot, was "concerning".
Lord Carlile, Lib Dem peer and Howard League for Penal Reform president, said some decisions were "questionable".
The Howard League's Charlotte Day says children in prison may have committed crimes but they are still children.
In 2010 Thames Valley Probation won the Howard League for Penal reform award for their work in this area.
Prison groups such as the Prison Reform Trust, Nacro and the Howard League for Penal Reform are against the proposals.
Fifty-five percent of inmates told Howard League investigators they had been involved in a bullying incident in the previous week.
In 2011, Northamptonshire courts gave custodial sentences in 6.5% of cases, compared with 1.5% in Warwickshire, research by the Howard League shows.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said it was "great news" that Ashfield would not hold youths.
The Howard League for Penal Reform questioned the basis for the projections.
Frances Crook, director of the Howard League, said boredom, isolation and lack of meaningful activity played a role in many of the deaths.
Frances Crook, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the deaths could have been avoided if the boys had received non-custodial punishments.
Self-injury rates among women inmates showed the largest increase, with a 48% rise in recorded incidents between 2003 and 2007, according to the Howard League.
But Frances Crook, from the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the "worrying" inspection report reveals HMP Gloucester needs "urgent action to overcome major problems".
The Howard League for Penal Reform said plans for a super prison were "a titanic waste of money that will do nothing to cut crime".
The Howard League, which is campaigning for more community sentences, obtained the sentencing data through a freedom of information request to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
The reports on the two institutions are the first in a series of reports the Howard League will be producing on conditions for children in prison.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said a reduction in the number of prison officers was putting prisoners and staff at risk.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the government's decision to hand over prisons to the private sector had been "a mistake of Olympic proportions".
"I don't think my surname has ever had any influence on me... but that's the one everybody laughs about, " says Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform.
The government launched a consultation last month on the education that young offenders receive while in custody but the Howard League said this was "too narrow" and ministers must "broaden their horizons".
The director of campaigns at the Howard League, Andrew Neilson, said a move away from a mandatory target system for police was likely to be the main reason for the third successive fall.
The Howard League report recommends better training of prison staff regarding suicide awareness, that those with serious mental health problems should not be imprisoned and that screening for suicide risk on reception be improved.
The Justice Committee (at 9.30am) continues its look at the treatment of women by the criminal justice system, with evidence from pressure groups the Prison Reform Trust and the Howard League for Penal Reform.
"What the Howard League would like to see is an inquiry which will look back over the history of Portland to see whether criminal prosecutions ought to be brought against staff or not, " she said.
Andrew Neilson, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, argued that the plans represented "an admission of the abject failure of short-term prison sentences" and that the government should make greater use of community sentences.
"This judgment confirms what we have been saying for a long time, and what the government has now recognised - Ashfield is no place for a child, " said Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, which represented all seven claimants.
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