The Queensland authorities’s suspension of the Human Rights Act, permitting it to imprison kids in police watch homes for adults, displays its priorities.
On Wednesday, the Queensland authorities stealthily handed new legal guidelines that may permit kids — predominately Black kids — to be detained in watch homes for prolonged intervals.
They handed it from a constructing that sits a 20-minute stroll away from Brisbane’s Police Watch Home, a spot the place Amnesty Worldwide in 2019 recorded greater than 2655 breaches of home and worldwide legislation, together with the failure to “present kids with satisfactory clear garments, underwear, and private hygiene merchandise, the institutional use of violence; the usage of isolation as punishment, and failure to supply satisfactory well being and medical care”.
It’s the similar place the place courageous whistleblower Steven Marshall revealed stunning racist and sexist remarks by watch home workers, the place kids had been being uncovered to sexual acts by incarcerated adults, the place a woman was held in a holding cell with two male prisoners, the place unlawful strip searches had been being carried out on kids, and the place kids had been handled like incarcerated adults.
Learn extra in regards to the Queensland authorities’s priorities relating to incarceration of Indigenous kids.
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