Department boss says staff initially declined request to provide information due to ‘incorrect advice’
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The public servant in charge of Queensland’s youth detention system has apologised for a government department’s refusal to provide the children’s court with information related to the prolonged solitary confinement of a boy, 13, with developmental disorders.
The judgment, reported by Guardian Australia on Monday, raised serious concerns about the treatment of the boy. Judge Tracy Fantin said his incarceration at the Cleveland youth detention centre had been “cruel”, “inappropriate” and a direct breach of the state’s youth justice principles.
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