Exclusive: Labor MP Jonty Bush among those speaking out about state’s youth justice policies after Guardian Australia investigation
The videos, published after a year-long investigation by Guardian Australia and SBS’s The Feed, showed young people locked in “freezing” isolation cells, becoming panicked and struggling to breathe.
Bush, who worked supporting victims before entering the state parliament, told Guardian Australia: “The footage of Sam*, and of all children detained in watch houses, is distressing”. Bush said evidence was clear that the younger and longer children are detained in custody, the more likely they are to reoffend.“It’s clear that communities have had enough, and everyone agrees there must be accountability for actions. But punishment has to be delivered in a way that rehabilitates, not entrenches young people into a lifetime of violence and crime.
“The government has had these solutions in its possession for more than a year, but has failed to act.The Queensland Council of Social Services and the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak released a joint statement in response to the footage calling for the “immediate release of all children in adult watch houses”.
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