Hundreds of caged children as young as 10, sharing prison-style common areas with pedophiles, locked up for weeks in solitary confinement and wanting nothing more than to speak to their mothers.
Queensland’s Court of Appeal has refused a child leave to appeal a 3½-year detention order handed down for dangerous operation of
a motor vehicle causing death and other offences.
A 15-year-old boy sentenced to more than six-months’ detention by a magistrate for a his role in a crime spree involving several joyrides in stolen cars has had the term scrapped by a higher court.
A proposed Queensland LNP policy plan to automatically sentence youth offenders to prison after a third offence and set up hard-labour farms for young offenders has been slammed as extreme and unworkable.