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The treatment of children in Queensland police cells 

27 July 2024

  • Illustration for Ben Smee feature on watch house.

    A teenager faces court in regional NSW, but her suspected cognitive impairment goes unrecognised

    Without access to psychologists through the courts, youth offenders are being denied a path to diversion and getting stuck in ‘quicksand’

23 July 2024

  • Queensland police car

    Queensland failed to act on report into ‘devastating’ experiences of people with disability in justice system

    Exclusive: Guardian Australia obtained the full, unpublished report, more than a year after it was tabled, via a Right to Information application

22 July 2024

  • Anne Hollonds is the National Children’s Commissioner

    Disabled children kept ‘in cages’ in police watch houses, Australia’s children’s commissioner says

    Underlying causes of youth crime are not being addressed, ‘which is what ultimately would keep the community safer’, Anne Hollonds says

19 July 2024

  • Sue Duncombe

    Crime and nourishment: the Koori court giving help and hope to traumatised kids

  • A young girl being taken into Cairns watch house

    Inhumane treatment of kids in custody won’t make Queenslanders safer. Empathy must triumph over fear

    Natalie Lewis

18 July 2024

  • Jonty Bush speaking at a press conference

    ‘Harrowing’ footage sparks calls for Queensland government to remove children from police watch houses

  • An illustration showing a girl in an isolated location in the dark next to a police van.

    What is FASD, and why do so many children with it end up in Australia’s justice system?

17 July 2024

  • Officers place a teenage girl in a watch house isolation cell

    Screaming and freezing: the kids put in Queensland isolation cells – Full Story podcast

    Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent Ben Smee discusses his exclusive investigation that reveals how teenagers born with severe intellectual disabilities and branded repeat offenders are being locked up in adult watch houses
  • An illustration of a girl being taken to a watch house cell

    At 14, Sam has the mental capacity of a five-year-old. So what’s she doing in a Queensland police cell?

    Across the state, teenagers born with severe intellectual disabilities branded young repeat offenders are being locked up in adult watch houses. Here are their stories

    • Screaming, freezing, struggling to breathe: confronting Queensland watch house footage exposes anguish of children locked in isolation cells

    • 'It's too cold in here': disabled First Nations girl's anguish revealed in watch house CCTV – video

    • 'I can't breathe': teenage boy gasps for air after fire lit in Queensland watch house – video

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