Just weeks after the Four Corners investigation into abuse inside juvenile Northern Territory detention centres sent shock waves around the world, more footage of institutional abuse towards minors has surfaced, this time from a facility in Queensland.
Sent to the Courier Mail on Tuesday, the 2013 CCTV video shows a then 17-year-old Jarrod Clayton inside an adult prison, surrounded by seven guards at the Brisbane Correctional Centre, being put into a body restraint and fitted with a hooded spit mask.
Jarrod Clayton's mother, Tina Edwards. Source: A Current Affair.
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possibly breach the convention against torture....
we should not have them any where near juveniles. They are not SPIT hoods, they are Guantanamo bay-like instruments to inflict real distress and anxiety into people. Barbaric and have no place. Treat juveniles like shit and you create a whole bunch of people so f....k up they come out with anger and psychological distress. As a community we all pay for that. I prefer offenders are treated as per the underpinning of the Juvenile Justice legislation - rehabilitation. You cannot rehabilitate people when you teach them that those who have more power should use it and abuse it over the vulnerable.
Spare a thought for the people who work with these young offenders. These people deserve to come home to their families after a day at work without having been assaulted and/or spat on.