The Northern Territory government has marked that it will restore the use of spit hoods for young people in juvenile detention centers, almost eight years after the practice was forbidden. The proposal is one of the various changes in the Youth Justice ACT 2005 and the regulations for juvenile justice 2006 that are expected to […]
A plan to equip Northern Territory Transit and public housing safety officers with “quasi-polishes”, including to wear weapons on buses, in supermarkets and social housing, has been closed as a “deeply irresponsible escalation” that could endanger lives. The readers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander are advised that this article contains the name of a […]