Australia’s leading Indigenous legal body blasts ‘lacklustre response’ to report by children’s commissioner after unrest at detention facilityUrgent steps must be taken to address the “failed” youth justice system and mistreatment of child offenders in the Northern Territory,Australia’s leading Indigenous legal body has said.
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (Natsils) has accused the government of a “lacklustre response” to a report final month on unrest at Don Dale juvenile detention facility final year that said young offenders were teargassed, hooded and restrained, and transported unlawfully to the adult jail.
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Source: theguardian.com