Episode 3: The Labor Party’s Andrew Leigh speaks with our deputy editor, Gary Johnston, about his views on crime and justice, and discusses the critical issues of unsustainable rising incarceration levels in Australia, with particular regard to both Indigenous and female imprisonment.
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What a terrible indictment on Australia that we jail such young children when we claim as a country to be a modern liberal democracy with fair treatment for all. There have been numerous inquiries into institutionalized abuse of children in care homes, but as a country we seem happy to keep imprisoning them. Thank you for this important article on a subject the media rarely reports on.
So we have children as young as 10 going to jail, and now Benito Dutton wants laws allowing the questioning of 14 year olds on their own by ASIO officers. That is a breach of their human rights, the Rights of the Child.