CCTV footage obtained by Guardian Australia and SBS The Feed shows a 13-year-old Indigenous girl being put into an isolation cell at a Cairns watch house. She struggles with police and tries to escape, until her arm is caught in the door.
In the Box: Inside the isolation cells where Australian kids are imprisoned — an investigation by SBS The Feed and Guardian Australia 'The box' is an isolation cell with no toilet, mattress or running water inside Queensland's police watch houses. Footage obtained through a joint investigation by SBS The Feed and Guardian Australia shows children being placed in isolation cells, in a state of distress.
But children, some as young as 11, are being held there for extended periods, alongside adults. Police squads exclusively targeting child offenders have been set up to tackle youth crime — like Taskforce Guardian in Queensland, which has arrested more than 1,400 children over the past year. The Queensland government retrospectively changed the state's Human Rights Act last year to allow keeping kids in watch houses.
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