News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 22 days ago
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report found a 17 per cent increase in the number of Australian teenagers locked up in detention in the past four years. Young Territorians in detention who have not yet been sentenced spend an average...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 22 days ago
A new report has found there has been a 17 per cent increase in the number of Australian teenagers locked up in detention in the past four years...The report, from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, says the rise is due to more juveniles...
News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| 23 days ago
Australians are 30 times more likely to be held in a detention centre than their non-indigenous peers, a new report shows. Research by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare also shows that in 2007/08 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 23 days ago
THE number of young people ending up in juvenile detention is continuing to rise and on an average day in Australia more than 600 young people are in detention...The number of young people in detention during 2007-08 rose from 1.7 per 1000 to 2 per...