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Spit hoods to be used on children in the NT again, Police Commissioner confirms
Spit hoods will be used on children in the Northern Territory, the Police Commis...
Dechlan Brennan 14 Oct 2024
Justice and mental health experts condemn CLP plans to lock up 10-year-olds and bring back spit hoods
Justice and mental health advocates have condemned the incoming Country Liberal...
Giovanni Torre 27 Aug 2024
New South Wales enacts complete ban on spit hoods
NSW has become the latest jurisdiction in Australia to completely ban spit hoods...
Dechlan Brennan 8 Feb 2024
Report reveals use of spit hood on Indigenous child in Victorian adult prison
A Victorian Indigenous teenager has been subjected to wearing a spit hood in an...
Dechlan Brennan 9 Nov 2023
Prison "never addressed" mental health of woman who died in spit hood
The family of a woman who died in custody while restrained and in a spit hood sa...
Giovanni Torre 11 Oct 2023
'I can't breathe': family demands spit hood ban

When Selesa Tafaifa died in Townsville Women's Correctional Centre she was handcuffed and had a spit hood over her head. The inquest into 44-year-old Tafaifa's death on November 30, 2021, began in Que...

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Rudi Maxwell Oct 11, 2023
Coronial inquest into spit hood death begins in Townsville

The inquest into the 2021 death in custody of 44-year-old Selesa Tafaifa began Monday in Townsville. Ms Tafaifa died on 30 November 2021 in Townsville Women's Correctional Centre while restrained with...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 9, 2023
NT Ombudsman recommends spit hoods be outlawed

The Northern Territory ombudsman has recommended the state government formally ban spit hoods as part of a groundbreaking 140 page report on the use of devices in police custody.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 31, 2023
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