A girl with severe autism was kept in solitary confinement at WA's Banksia Hill Detention Centre for more than seven months and "treated like a dog", according to documents filed in the federal court as part of a class action.
Thank you for sharing this, Andrew, much appreciated
there’s a bit more to this (which i'm flinging around) "On an average night in 2019, there were 949 children behind bars in Australia – more than half of them were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Of all 10-year-olds incarcerated, 80% were Aboriginal children.
Aboriginal kids make up only 6% of all 10- to 17-year-olds in Australia but they are 54% of the juvenile detention population.
They are jailed at 22 times the rate of non-Indigenous young people. And they are jailed younger. In 2019 nearly 65% of children under 14 in detention were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander." (The Guardian, 2021)
there’s a bit more to this (which i'm flinging around)
"On an average night in 2019, there were 949 children behind bars in Australia – more than half of them were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Of all 10-year-olds incarcerated, 80% were Aboriginal children.
Aboriginal kids make up only 6% of all 10- to 17-year-olds in Australia but they are 54% of the juvenile detention population.
They are jailed at 22 times the rate of non-Indigenous young people. And they are jailed younger. In 2019 nearly 65% of children under 14 in detention were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander." (The Guardian, 2021)
https://youtu.be/imWGnlzLPiU - Locked Up featuring Briggs