Victoria Urged to Follow UN Safeguards in Youth Prisons

Victoria Urged to Follow UN Safeguards in Youth Prisons
A photograph taken on August 21, 2019 shows the Hopkins Correctional Centre, a prison located on the outskirts of the small regional Victoria town of Ararat, some 200 kilometres west of Melbourne. William WEST/ Getty Image
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Activists are calling on the Victorian government to implement the United Nations’ (UN) anti-torture protocol so children in custody are kept safe.

The Commonwealth government in 2017 signed on to the international convention, which requires independent oversight bodies to inspect all places of detention.