The proportion of youth offenders who have been subject to non-court actions has dropped from 54 per cent to 43 per cent.
There was a confronting story in the Mercury newspaper on 17 May under the headline 'Teen crime crackdown'.
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
The UN Committee against Torture’s concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Australia provides substantive recommendations for Tasmania.
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.
Revelations that children at Ashley Youth Detention Centre are once again facing rolling lockdowns of 23 hours a day are disturbing and distressing.
The Rockliff Government, particularly Minister Roger Jaensch, have been dragging their collective heels on closing the Ashley Youth Detention Centre for a year.
How we deal with kids when they come into the system can make all the difference to whether or not we break the cycle for those young people.
The Attorney-General’s decision to only raise the age to 12, instead of 14, is indefensible.
On behalf of the Greens and the children of lutruwita/Tasmania, I thank Peter Gutwein for making the long-needed decision to close Ashley Youth Detention Centre