The 76-bed Wacol facility,announced under the Palaszczuk government,will reduce the strain on the state’s watchhouses and help youths develop new skills.
Some children are committing break and enters,posing for photos while holding machetes over victims’ sleeping bodies and boasting about it on social media.
Jacinta Allan is expected to make more announcements on crime to increase police powers and deter people from showcasing their crimes on social media.
At this Queensland program for troubled teens,the “curriculum” is delivered on the gym floor through fitness and martial arts classes.
The state’s top police union says officers are responding to more than 500 domestic and family violence-related occurrences a day,with the number expected to grow.
Queensland kids are being detained in adult watchhouses when they have been recently arrested or while on remand,due to overcrowding at the state’s three youth detention facilities.
The 16-year-old has been charged after a string of break-ins at businesses across Ipswich and south Brisbane this month.
A teenager who allegedly slashed a stranger across the head with a machete on a busy St Kilda street to steal a car wants to be freed on bail following an alleged nine-month crime spree.
Significant concerns are held for children in contact with Australia’s youth justice system,including those held in custody in adult facilities in Queensland.
The Pavilion School in Epping was a lifeline for teen Connor Renfrey,but dozens of young people are languishing on a waiting list.