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Flat White

Throwing kids in prison doesn't work

24 February 2022

4:00 AM

24 February 2022

4:00 AM

In 1993 the British Home Secretary, Michael Howard, famously said ‘prison works’. He was right, but only in the most anaemic sense.

Youth justice facilities and prisons stop criminals from committing further depredations during their incarceration. That’s incredibly important. Yet all but the most egregious offenders are eventually released. What then?

In the current context of a national debate about whether to raise the age of criminal responsibility to reduce Indigenous over-representation in youth prisons, it is a question worth pondering.

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