Justice advocates say state’s overreliance on incarceration is harmful, expensive and fails to make the community safer
The Queensland government has announced the construction of two new youth detention centres – one in Cairns and another in south-east Queensland.to make breach of bail an offence for children.have been charged with breach of bail.
In contrast, early intervention and prevention programs reduce crime at a population level by between 5% and 31%, and reduce offending among at-risk populations by 50%, it said. Brookes said he had met a 13-year-old boy who had come to the attention of police and had been sleeping rough after falling out with his mother and father.
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