Sending teens to maximum security prisons shows Australia needs to raise the age of criminal responsibility
- Written by Piero Moraro, Lecturer in Criminology, Edith Cowan University
The recent transfer of a “difficult cohort” of teenagers to a maximum-security adult prison in Western Australia raises familiar questions about Australia’s prison system.
The 17 young detainees have “significant offending histories” and had for months been destroying infrastructure, assaulting staff and harming...
