Controversial devices were barred by former Labor government but will return to watch houses after tough-on-crime CLP’s election win
NT chief minister Lia Finocchiaro campaigned hard on law and order before being elected to the top job in August and promised to reinstate the use of spit hoods and lower the criminal age of responsibility.NT chief minister Lia Finocchiaro campaigned hard on law and order before being elected to the top job in August and promised to reinstate the use of spit hoods and lower the criminal age of responsibility.
“We will be introducing spit this week, back into use in the Northern Territory – just in our watch-house facilities,” he said. The CLP’s suite of crime-based repeals would send a clear message to the public that assaulting frontline workers and police wasn’t acceptable, Murphy said.She promised to reinstate the use of spit hoods when parliament sat for the first time this week, as well as
“Those laws do not meet communities expectations, and they do not allow the government to intervene early in these young people’s lives when they’re committing such serious offences.”The corrections commissioner, Matthew Varley, was aware the youth justice act would be amended in parliament in the next two weeks to reinstate the use of spit hoods in youth detention facilities.
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