On an average night, about 900 children are in youth detention around Australia. Nearly half are First Nations.
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Scotland, Hawai’i, New York and Spain have shown that there is another way to do youth justice – one built on healing, not punishment.
Read the full article by Denham Sadler here:
https://www.abouttime.org.au/news-and-investigations/there-is-another-way-doing-justice-differently
Australia likes to keep other children behind bars too. Asylum seeker children who have not yet been classed as refugees are now detained in community situations but many lived in actual detention centres for years. Read more here:
- https://www.abc.net.au/religion/forgotten-children-legacy-australia-immigration-detention-policy/106496830
- https://humanrights.gov.au/resource-hub/by-resource-type/reviews-and-inquiries/forgotten-children-national-inquiry-children-immigration
- https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/detention-australia-statistics/
- https://www.miragenews.com/australia-marks-25-years-of-offshore-detention-1741736/
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