Spit Hoods
First Peoples Disability Network has condemned the Northern Territory government's youth justice overhaul, reviving spit hoods and abolishing the principle that detention be a last resort, warning the...
Australia's National Children's Commissioner and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner are backing calls from child health and legal experts for the Northern Territory gove...
Legal and justice experts and Senator Lidia Thorpe have warned of the danger proposed NT laws represent to children in the Territory. Senator Thorpe, a Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung independent...
The Justice Reform Initiative has slammed the Northern Territory government's latest amendments to youth justice laws as "a dangerous and regressive step which will drastically escalate children's inc...
This report contains the name of deceased persons. The National Network has condemned the Northern Territory Government's proposed overhaul of the Youth Justice Act 2005 and Youth Justice Regulations...
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has grilled the federal government on their responsibility to uphold international human rights law in relation to youth justice.
Members of the Australian National Preventive Mechanism - an alliance of human rights and justice organisations, including custodial inspectors, ombudsmen and human rights commissions - have raised th...
Spit hoods will be used on children in the Northern Territory, the Police Commissioner has confirmed. The practice is widely criticised and the 2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention...
Justice and mental health advocates have condemned the incoming Country Liberal Party government's 'law and order' plans for the Northern Territory, including lowering the age of criminal responsibili...
NSW has become the latest jurisdiction in Australia to completely ban spit hoods with legislation passing parliament on Thursday evening. The decision means the device, which has been described as inh...
A Victorian Indigenous teenager has been subjected to wearing a spit hood in an adult prison, renewing calls for them to be banned. A report tabled last week in the state's parliament by Victoria's Co...
The family of a woman who died in custody while restrained and in a spit hood say her mental health issues were ignored while in prison. Selesa Tafaifa was 44 when she died in custody in Townsville on...
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...