The rate of incarceration for Indigenous children in Queensland is 33 times the rate of non-Indigenous children. Maggie Munn, a Gunggari person and National Director of First Nations justice advocacy group Change the Record, says the move to hold children as young as 10 in adult watch houses was “fundamentally cruel and...
Australian state of Queensland suspends human rights law to lock up children (www.aljazeera.com)
The rate of incarceration for Indigenous children in Queensland is 33 times the rate of non-Indigenous children. Maggie Munn, a Gunggari person and National Director of First Nations justice advocacy group Change the Record, says the move to hold children as young as 10 in adult watch houses was “fundamentally cruel and...