Palaszczuk government overriding state’s Human Rights Act to allow for imprisoning children as young as 10 in adult watch houses
to allow it to imprison children in adult watch houses “even if it would not be compatible with human rights”.
The emergency laws – which are expected to pass on Thursday – were included with changes to an unrelated billThe proposed laws come after a supreme court challenge argued theThe state’s human rights commissioner, Scott McDougall, said allowing children as young as 10 to be held indefinitely in “what are essentially concrete boxes” means “there are farm animals with better legal protections in Queensland than children.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup There have been cases documented of children held for up to 40 days in cells designed to hold adults for less than 24 hours. The experience has been likened to sensory deprivation, as the lights in cells remain on 24 hours a day and there is often no access to sunlight.
Conditions in watch houses include exposure of children to aggressive adult detainees, a lack of appropriate facilities for girls,
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