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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.