Joint Submission to Queensland Youth Justice Reform Inquiry
Change the Record and the Human Rights Law Centre are calling on the Miles Government to overhaul the state’s outdated, punitive youth justice system and redirect funding towards a future where no child grows up in a prison cell.
In a submission to the Queensland Government’s Youth Justice Reform Select Committee, the organisations called on the Miles Government to:
End the detention of children in inhumane police watch house cells;
Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14, with no exceptions; and
Abolish reverse onus bail laws unnecessarily trapping children in police and prison cells.