Sentences with phrase «of juvenile detention centres»

Yet with Aboriginal deaths in custody a national concern and 50 % of Juvenile Detention centres being filled with Indigenous youth, Grant has called for «A full reckoning of our Nation's past that may set loose the chains of history that bind this country's first and today most miserably impoverished people,»

Not exact matches

Drawing on a history of labour and song, Angell will present field recordings which position Gucci's work within the traditions of gospel, country blues, agricultural songs, auctioneering and songs found in juvenile detention centres and prisons.

With the encouragement of his Chief Judge, Thomson began working with the Kingston community to develop a Family Court Clinic to assess children and their families, an observation and detention home, a juvenile diversion program, a volunteer probation service, a shelter for abused women, a youth crisis centre and several new community - based group homes for youth.

Chapter eleven sees a continuation of these themes, through the shocking human rights abuses that were exposed at Don Dale juvenile detention centre in Northern Territory.

The abuses found within Indigenous communities today are directly linked to oppressive and abusive practices performed by Euro - Western practitioners, for example, the endless removal of children from their communities and the abuses they suffered in residential schools, foster and adoptive homes, and juvenile detention centres.

Here's a very useful recap of the day from O'Brien Solicitors who are representing Dylan Voller, whose treatment at the Don Dale juvenile detention centre helped spark the investigation.

The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was established to investigate the deaths of 99 Indigenous people in the custody of police, prison or juvenile detention centres between 1 January 1980 and 31 May 1989.

Many Australians would have woken yesterday morning after a restless night's sleep, thanks to the disturbing footage of the abuse of teenage boys incarcerated in a Northern Territory Juvenile Detention Centre, aired on Monday night by the ABC's Four Corners program.

Donna Ah Chee, CEO of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress in Alice Springs, said we should not have needed a Royal Commission into the abuses at the Don Dale juvenile detention centre.

The health of a group of young Australians in a New South Wales juvenile justice detention centre: a pilot study

To address this issue, the current study used data from the routine mental health screening of 365 detained male adolescents (12 — 18 years) in two juvenile detention centres.