Sentences with phrase «about youth detention»

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A community group from Toronto has reached out to youth with its video «Know Your Rights» which provides information about their rights when dealing with police, an understanding of powers of arrest, detention, and search, strategies to deal with situations relating to police contact, and an understanding of what recourse is available when someone experiences an abuse of police power.

the adult Indigenous imprisonment rate had increased by 57 % between 2000 and 2013, and the rate of juvenile detention remained about 24 times that of non-Indigenous youth.

There were calls for Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion to resign, after he admitted he had been briefed on evidence of what was happening in Northern Territory's youth detention system in October last year, according to The Australian (paywalled), despite him previously having said he knew nothing about the allegations prior to the episode of Four Corners.

The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT (AMSANT) is one of three peak NT Aboriginal organisations to have expressed bitter disappointment about the terms of reference and composition of the Royal Commission into the Child Protection and Youth Detention Systems of the Government of the NT.

Former head of Queensland corrections Keith Hamburger, who gave evidence about shocking conditions in the Don Dale detention centre, called for an overhaul of the youth justice system, led by Aboriginal people and communities.