The boy was detained in solitary confinement for 23 hours and 59 minutes per day, a judge said.
A 13-year-old boy was held in jail for more than a month, where he was regularly detained in solitary confinement, despite telling Queensland courts he wished to plead guilty, in what a judge has described as “cruel and unusual punishment”.
His bail was opposed by prosecutors on the grounds there was an unacceptable risk that he would commit an offence that endangered the community.“His request for a sentencing hearing was, for reasons I do not at all pretend to understand, and which are not apparent from the material, refused in the Brisbane Childrens Court and again in the Ipswich Childrens Court,” Judge Alexander Horneman-Wren said.
Horneman-Wren said the teenager was housed in a detention centre “at the other end of the state”, where his family could not offer him support. Horneman-Wren said he understood there was the additional period of overnight lockdown of the centre, which was for a 12-hour period, meaning the teenager was isolated also for that time.
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