Ashley Youth Detention Centre
Despite your minister's claims, Ashley Youth Detention Centre continues to be a source of trauma and devastation for the young people sent there.
Sep
2023
5
Ashley Youth Detention Centre
Dec
2022
19
No child should spend Christmas in prison, Greens call for urgent release of child prisoners from Ashley
The Greens are calling for children imprisoned at Ashley Youth Detention Centre to be allowed wherever possible to spend Christmas at home with their families
Nov
2022
28
UN Committee Recommendations Must Be Urgently Addressed
The UN Committee against Torture’s concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Australia provides substantive recommendations for Tasmania.
Nov
2022
22
Draft Youth Justice Blueprint a Good Plan, But no Immediate Solution
While the draft plan represents a major shift for youth justice and lays out the steps forward, it doesn’t solve Tasmania’s current youth justice failings.
Oct
2022
25
Ashley Youth Detention Centre – Lockdowns
Children are again being locked up at Ashley for 23 hours in a day because you cannot properly staff the place.
Oct
2022
24
AYDC Lockdowns Demand Immediate Action from Premier Rockliff
Revelations that children at Ashley Youth Detention Centre are once again facing rolling lockdowns of 23 hours a day are disturbing and distressing.
Sep
2022
6
Ashley Youth Detention Centre – Response to Commission of Inquiry
Many of the kids ending up in Ashley have trauma, complex mental health issues, disability.
Sep
2022
5
National Child Protection Week
With the backdrop of the Commission of Inquiry, this National Child Protection Week is a particularly sombre one in Tasmania
Aug
2022
25
Ashley Youth Detention Centre
We have been concerned this week and have questioned the minister about the time line for the closure. It is meant to be in two years time.
Aug
2022
25
Ashley Youth Detention Centre
There are multiple grave allegations about current staff that got a 'business as usual' response from the former Department of Communities.