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<strong>Exclusive: </strong>Lack of punishment follows repeated promises by police commissioner Katarina Carroll to crack down on racism and misogyny within service

Queensland has brought in laws allowing kids as young as 10 to be held in police watch houses. Some advocates say the best way to create an adult criminal is to lock up a child.

A new law allows children to be imprisoned in police watch houses, the equivalent of jails in the United States, as youth detention centers overflow. All while the number of youth offenders hits a decade low.

The amendments enable children as young as ten-years-old to be held indefinitely in detention.

New laws that allow police watch houses to be youth detention centres retroactively exempt the Queensland government from litigation, prompting lawyers to consider A class action lawsuit.

Productivity Commission cites harsh bail legislation as example of changes likely to exacerbate disadvantage

Decision could make inmates’ contact with family and friends unaffordable, despite studies showing it reduces recidivism

Exclusive: Queensland police data shows six 11-year-old children have also been charged with the offence

Queensland Police released a 30-minute documentary about youth crime which exposed its own officers' potentially unlawful behaviour. Oops.

Queensland’s Annastacia Palaszczuk government has announced plans to build another children’s jail in Woodford, next door to the adult maximum-security facility. Paul Gregoire interviews Debbie Kilroy from Sisters Inside.