Australia’s failure to protect children in juvenile detention | Four Corners
Australia is one of the only developed countries in the world to lock up children as young as 10.
Every year, more than 4,000 kids are detained across the country.
Six years after Four Corners exposed the brutal treatment of young detainees inside in the Northern Territory’s notorious Don Dale facility, the program can reveal serious allegations of excessive force in Western Australia’s only youth detention centre, Banksia Hill.
Exclusive footage from inside Banksia Hill shows, for the first time, dangerous retraining practices used by officers on children. Their families say there is widespread mistreatment inside the detention centre.
Every year, hundreds of complaints about problems including racism, excessive force and solitary confinement continue to be made about Don Dale too – despite a Royal Commission and promises to fix the system.
Meanwhile, Australian governments have buried a national report recommending the age of criminal responsibility be raised to 14.
Why does Australia continue to incarcerate children, knowing the harm it causes?
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