Riots,escapes, allegations of mistreatment: whats behind the crisis in youth detention in Northern Territory? A special investigation by Helen DavidsonMatthew was a “yellow shirt” inside the Don Dale detention centre, or given work rights and freedom to leave the centre because of his good behaviour. Green and blue shirts also have lower security but the three groups rarely mix with the maximum-security red shirts.“We know approximately them because we always get locked down when they enact something outrageous,” he says. “It happens like every day, you’ll get locked down for half a day because someone is running amok. Then you’ll get let out and then someone else will enact something and youll be locked down for another hour or couple of hours.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com