@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:
So what would you consider appropriate, She-el?
I do not have the necessary qualifications to qualified to write a definitive handbook on the treatment of juvenile offenders, but that doesn't mean I cannot recognise something blatently inappropriate when I see it.
I don't imagine you could write the handbook either, but do you believe what was shown was appropriate.
Plenty of people much more experienced in these matters than you or I have been trying to fix the social alienation of indigenous Australians for years ......and failed. The footage shown on 4 corners was confronting, but what wasn't shown was the hours leading up to those events.
Unfortunately there will always be prisoners who are HIV positive or who have hepatitis who will spit, sometimes including blood at prison officers in an attempt to infect them. There will be others who will attack officers at any opportunity. Restraints, spit guards and capsicum spray / tear gas are an unfortunate, but necessary tool in handling uncontrollable offenders including juveniles.
While these tools have an important place, every effort must be made to ensure they are used appropriately and professionally. The danger is that a culture of abuse could very easily creep into juvenile detention when officers are constantly pressured by certain repeat offenders.
The real question is whether this culture of abuse of juvenile offenders by prison officers is present in our juvenile detention centres.
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