LCA concerned by tactics used at NT youth detention centre

12/10/2015

The Law Council of Australia has expressed concern over the recently released Northern Territory children’s commissioner’s report into incidents in the Behaviour Management Unit at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre between 4 and 21 August 2014. That report made findings that child detainees were subject to: hoods and handcuffs being used indiscriminately; solitary confinement in breach of the Youth Justice Act; and tear-gas being used with no meaningful attempt to negotiate a peaceful outcome. View the LCA's media release here.