{"id":9464,"date":"2021-01-17T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/18\/hell-scared-how-a-terrified-homeless-boy-found-himself-locked-up-alone-in-the-hole"},"modified":"2021-01-17T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T16:30:05","slug":"hell-scared-how-a-terrified-homeless-boy-found-himself-locked-up-alone-in-the-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/hell-scared-how-a-terrified-homeless-boy-found-himself-locked-up-alone-in-the-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hell scared&#8217;: how a terrified homeless boy found himself locked up alone in the &#8216;hole&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The child\u2019s story:<\/strong> Louie has been in and out of juvenile detention most of his young adult life. He tells of how he\u2019d pretend to be on the phone to family just to stay a few minutes longer out of solitary<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/18\/australias-anguish-the-indigenous-kids-trapped-behind-bars\">Australia\u2019s anguish: the Indigenous kids trapped behind bars<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Shortly after Louie turned 15, he was standing in front of a shop window late at night with his friend Joe, who was holding a stolen hammer.<\/p><p>For weeks they had been sleeping on the streets of Perth. At night they would fall asleep sitting in front of hot air vents to keep warm, using a rolled-up jumper for a pillow, lying against each other, Louie\u2019s head on Joe\u2019s shoulder.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/18\/australias-anguish-the-indigenous-kids-trapped-behind-bars\">Australia's anguish: the Indigenous kids trapped behind bars<\/a> <\/p><p>It\u2019s called the \u2018back\u2019 or the \u2018hole\u2019. It\u2019s like sitting in the back of a police van. I could touch both sides<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/18\/hell-scared-how-a-terrified-homeless-boy-found-himself-locked-up-alone-in-the-hole\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/18\/hell-scared-how-a-terrified-homeless-boy-found-himself-locked-up-alone-in-the-hole\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The child\u2019s story: Louie has been in and out of juvenile detention most of his young adult life. He tells of how he\u2019d pretend to be on the phone to family just to stay a few minutes longer out of solitaryAustralia\u2019s anguish: the Indigenous kids trapped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,2674,2665,6,1853,2059,1275,2672,1206,2675,2062,438,2673,2671,2670],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9472,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions\/9472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}