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Monday, December 17

“This is what happens when hard cases make bad law”

Changes to how young people are sentenced for serious crimes will crush any hope of them leading effective lives outside the justice system, says a lawyer and researcher who has interviewed every juvenile offender serving a current sentence for murder in South Australia.

Mandatory drug treatment "punitive": Children's Commissioner

South Australia’s Commissioner for Children and Young People has labelled the Liberal Government’s plan to introduce mandatory drug treatment for children as a “punitive” approach that breaches young people’s rights.

A screengrab from the Four Corners program showing a boy strapped to a mechanical chair in the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Berrimah. Photo: Four Corners/AAP

Shut down Don Dale and reform juvenile justice: royal commission

A Northern Territory royal commission has recommended the closure of Darwin’s notorious Don Dale Detention Centre, raising the age of criminal responsibility and ending long periods of isolation and restraint for child inmates.