Beyond punishment and restrictive practices, calls for a more caring society *** Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and references to people who have died

“The NT Government justifies its decision with the same logic used in aged care homes & psychiatric wards: the language of safety, management & care. But beneath those euphemisms sits something far older, the drive to control behaviour through fear & force.” #AusPol #DonDale

Don Dale detainee isolated for 84 hours and denied food as coercion technique, investigation finds Children’s commissioner says young Indigenous person kept in isolation for 12 hours longer than permitted under NT youth justice laws because they refused to move cell blocks

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“The decision of the Team Leader not to allow food to be provided after hours, unless moved, amounts to prohibited actions contrary to section 153 of the Youth Justice Act..”
What is the #NTGovt doing about this ongoing revealing brutality? Shut down #DonDale

Come and support the #CloseDonDaleNow vigil - every Friday, 5pm outside #DonDale youth prison
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#JailingIsFailing #AbolishYouthPrison
#KidsInCommunity
#KidsOnCountry

'The ABC can..reveal the development of a $55 million replacement of #DonDale - which was recommended in the 2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory-👉has been redesigned to increase capacity by...

Remember the spit hoods? #DonDale to expand years after its closure was recommended

'The new works..have been criticised by the acting NT Children's Commissioner, who described the ongoing detainment of children in the facility as a "national...

‘Systems fail, boy punished’ could be the refrain of a #YouthJustice system that continues to blame, punish & harm young people for harm done to them by adults & systems’ failures. It’s got to stop #ShutYouthPrisons #DonDale #Diversion...

@TerritoryLabor
'there are 24 children – 22 boys and two girls – in detention in the NT and they are all Aboriginal
Eleven of them are in #DonDale–the centre that the Royal Commission said was not fit to house juveniles and should be closed...

NT used freedom-of-information laws to suppress Don Dale ... Northern Territory opposition says request for footage of...

NT used freedom-of-information laws to suppress #DonDale CCTV footage

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Great work @dvoller97 bringing these appalling figures and this shocking ongoing reality to light... #DonDale #YouthJustice #YouthDetention #remand #ShutYouthPrison #KidsOnCountryNotInCustody

Dylan Voller: ‘19 of the 25 #children and youths held in #DonDale are on #remand – they have not been convicted of any crime. Every single one of those children is #Aboriginal.’...

German news is reporting the #DonDale report: ‘Aborigines in Australien: “Schockierende Misshandlungen”’

#dondale
#spithoods
#teargas

And @adamgiles, the fact that you didn’t know is no excuse. Your ignorance and incompetence are yet another reason you must resign. #dondale

.@adamgiles, your so-called government has brutalised defenceless children in its care. You and the whole bloody lot must resign. #dondale