Screaming, freezing, struggling to breathe: confronting Queensland watch house footage exposes anguish of children locked in isolation cells

Exclusive: Cache of videos seen by Guardian Australia and SBS The Feed lays bare distressing treatment of teenagers – many of them disabled – in police custody

A girl punches herself in the face, strips naked and urinates on the floor of an isolation cell; a boy wakes in the night and tells officers: “I can’t breathe.”

Children scream in distress at being placed in a “freezing” isolation cell, known as “the box”.

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