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Dozens of children still locked up in Don Dale over festive period

Dozens of children are likely to spend Christmas behind bars in the Northern Territory’s infamous Don Dale youth detention centre, four years after the government agreed to close it. Inmate numbers climbed to 44 in recent months after the NT government toughened youth bail laws earlier in the year. Darwin lawyer John B Lawrence SC is representing an 11-year-old Indigenous boy on remand in the former men’s prison. “It’s disgusting that a child so young is in custody and away from his family over the holidays,” he said on Wednesday. “But it’s a fact and it’s appalling that we accept and let this happen in Australia”.

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Don Dale was ‘spiralling out of control’ | NITV

A former Don Dale Youth Detention Centre guard says the security climate was “spiralling out of control” in the lead up to an incident where boys were tear-gassed. Ex Youth Justice Officer Leonard De Souza told the Northern Territory juvenile justice royal commission that Don Dale was struggling with overcrowding, increased lock-downs, dismal training and staff shortages. He said new guards only received three days of training in assault responses and never learnt skills in suicide prevention, cultural awareness or dealing with emergency situations.

Source: Don Dale was ‘spiralling out of control’ | NITV

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Amy McQuire On Don Dale: 200 Years Of Trauma Through A CCTV Lens – New Matilda

The Four Corners revelations are disturbing but not shocking. They are the product of a system that has continually excused the perpetrators of violence, writes Amy McQuire. Aboriginal affairs moves at a glacial pace – and the vast majority of problems are always under the surface. The mainstream media only sees what is easily visibleMore

Source: Amy McQuire On Don Dale: 200 Years Of Trauma Through A CCTV Lens – New Matilda

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‘They Need To Destroy It’: US Experts On Don Dale And Youth Detention – New Matilda

Those who have looked closely at the issue in the US have a warning for Australia. Max Chalmers reports. When Vincent Schiraldi took charge of Washington D.C.’s juvenile corrections program he saw up close a system in which abuse was not merely enabled but embedded. Schiraldi is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, turningMore

Source: ‘They Need To Destroy It’: US Experts On Don Dale And Youth Detention – New Matilda