Youth advocates condemn $50m election pledge, likened to former Newman government’s failed bootcamps, as ‘overreach of power’
Queensland opposition leader David Crisafulli has announced plans to send youth deemed ‘at risk’ of committing a crime to special camps.Queensland opposition leader David Crisafulli has announced plans to send youth deemed ‘at risk’ of committing a crime to special camps.has announced plans to send young people deemed “at risk” of committing a criminal offence to so-called “reset camps” – a program youth advocates have criticised as open to abuse.
She said children should not be sent to a residential facility “against their will without the oversight of the courts”.“It is concerning to give the government the power to take away the liberty of a child in circumstances where they haven’t committed a crime other than, for example, being the sibling of an offender. Without any judicial scrutiny, this is a complete overreach of government power.
Debbie Kilroy, the chief executive of Sisters Inside, said the LNP policy amounted to “prisons in the community” and that the children sent there would be mostly Indigenous.“They were the failed policy that they introduced in 2012 and if they don’t want to keep being compared to the government in 2012 they should stop looking like the government from 2012,” Miles said.
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