Inmates started rioting and units were set on fire at a West Australian detention centre on Sunday night after a man was rushed to hospital with critical self-harm injuries.
Fran Logan said a social media campaign airing allegations of mistreatment of offenders at the state’s only juvenile detention facility was “disgraceful”.
A boy was allegedly tied up and sexually assaulted in the troubled Victorian youth jail system,and junior staff got the blame.
Josh,a youth offender,says he was put in what he calls a'hot box'and was threatened with dogs in the adult prison he should never have been sent to.
The media attention around the imprisonment of children has galvanised people,but the barbarity of detention is not unique to the US.
Federal government has been ordered to halt deportation to Sri Lanka of two members of a family as they await an appeal.
Something is very wrong with an immigration system that rips a well-loved family away from their regional community only to put them in detention.
Will history,and our grandchildren,be forgiving of our callousness,asks Jack Waterford.
"There are too many young people in the one place."
Malcolm Turnbull has kept the door open on a long-standing New Zealand offer to resettle 150 refugees as the Manus Island stand-off enters its fifth day.
The centres are designed to house children who have been charged with an offence but are yet to face court who can't return home for various reasons.