Criminal law experts are recommending the limited release of elderly, young and minor offenders from Australian jails and detention centers to avoid a preventable COVID-19 outbreak.
Mar 27, 2020
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Over the past year, at least seven children have died from diseases including influenza while being detained by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency. Infectious disease experts ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Australian doctors must continue a campaign of "civil disobedience" and "non-violent direct action" against the Federal Government's policies on mandatory immigration detention, according to the authors of a Perspective published ...
Oct 14, 2019
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Reports this week of an Indigenous boy with a disability held naked for days in a Brisbane police cell have once again raised the issue of how best to treat our most vulnerable young offenders, and the impact of their incarceration.
Jun 21, 2019
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New research conducted for the current independent inquiry suggests that – despite recent policy improvements – cultures of child abuse are liable to emerge while youth custody exists, and keeping children in secure institutions ...
Oct 18, 2018
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There are almost 13,000 detained migrant children in the United States, according to several recent news reports. This number has increased six-fold since 2017, despite the successful reunification of some families.
Sep 20, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Young people in juvenile detention or jail may suffer health effects that last well into adulthood, a pair of new studies suggests.
Jan 23, 2017
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Individuals who are dependent on opioids are more likely to relapse after treatment in a compulsory drug detention center versus a voluntary drug treatment center that provides methadone therapy, say the Yale authors of a ...
Dec 8, 2016
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Health officials in Arizona say the largest current measles outbreak in the United States is in part because some workers at a federal immigration detention center refuse to get vaccinated.
Jul 7, 2016
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In the early years of my clinical practice as a psychologist treating heroin users, I commonly saw adolescents and young adults using heroin as their first drug. A typical client was a male in his mid-teens, perhaps a runaway ...
Nov 25, 2015
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