The crisis in youth justice?

f ever we need a federal government to intervene in a human rights crisis in this nation, then it is now.

• Greg Barns
• Pearls and Irritations

There are almost daily headlines about the appalling abuse of children in detention centres and the preparedness of state governments, and the Northern Territory to cynically and callously play the ‘law and order’ card at the expense of some of the most vulnerable members of our community.

From Perth to Cairns the youth justice system is making the lives of those caught in it worse and ensuring the likelihood of them ‘graduating’ to the adult criminal justice system is high.

In Western Australia the Banksia Hill youth detention facility was exposed in a…

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