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Message started by Prevailing on Nov 4th, 2012 at 5:51am

Title: Ted Baillieu Holds Children Solitary Confinement
Post by Prevailing on Nov 4th, 2012 at 5:51am
Ted Baillieu Über Alles...More State Sanctioned Child Abuse As Racism & Human Rights Violations Escalate... Our Corporate Nazi Premier above all, including the law of the land, is holding Juveniles...children in solitary confinement in a maximum security Adult Prison...

And these are not children who crossed into Australia in a disputed legal manner, they are Australian born Aboriginal & Native Born juveniles subject not only to international human rights protection but Australian constitutional protection as well.  Ted Bailieu and the people associated with this decision stand condemned and I have no hesitation publicly condemning them as criminally minded Nazis...


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Teens 'in solitary confinement' in Victorian Jail.

A social worker says up to six children are being kept in solitary confinement in a maximum-security adult prison in Victoria.

Last month, revelations a 16-year-old Indigenous boy spent several months in solitary confinement at Port Phillip Prison sparked calls for an urgent investigation.
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Youth worker Chantelle Higgs visits the Charlotte maximum security unit inside the prison, and has told 7.30 Victoria that case is not an isolated one.

She says there are currently five or six other children being held in solitary.

"I've known of at least one teenager to spend between six-and-a-half and seven months in Charlotte, which is almost unfathomable to think about what that would do to somebody," she told 7.30 Victoria.

"I would say it's damaged him beyond words to describe the effect it's had on him ... he's not really recovered."

She says the Charlotte unit is a "stark environment".

"There's no natural light, no natural air. Often there is either dead silence or the sounds of really unwell people in the background," she said. >:(

"One young man told me once a banging sound had gone on for 24 hours - another prisoner had been banging on the walls for 24 hours."

She says within the solitary unit, people are locked down for a minimum of 22 hours.

"They don't have access to any rehabilitation, they don't get to go to school, they don't get to learn, they don't get access to mental health practitioners," she said. >:(

"It's a really depressing environment and a lot of people will leave with mental health problems if they don't already have them.

"It breaks people."

She says the youth have nobody to advocate on their behalf.

"The parole board has made these decisions behind closed doors," she said.
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"It's hard to imagine that a magistrate in a children's court would sentence a child to solitary confinement."

Andrew McIntosh, a spokesman for the Victorian Minister for Corrections, says the report is wrong.

In a statement, he said the State Government is restricted from commenting on individual cases.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-03/victoria-denies-children-kept-in-solitary-confinement/4351096

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Title: Re: Ted Baillieu Holds Children Solitary Confinement
Post by pansi1951 on Nov 4th, 2012 at 6:05am
There should be a full investigation by the human rights commission, if found to be true, those responsible should be prosecuted. Victoria is a lawless state, police corruption reigns, but something must be done to protect our children.

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