More than 20 organisations issued warnings long before government’s ‘urgent’ move to override human rights protections for children on remand
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The Queensland government ignored more than 20 warnings that its youth justice policies would overload the state’s detention centres and police watch houses, more than two years before the “urgent” move to suspend human rights protections for children held on remand.
Last week, the state amended legislation with no warning after being advised that children being detained in police watch house cells – some for up to 40 days – had likely been held unlawfully for years.
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