Written off: how Queensland's youth justice system is turbocharging reoffending rates – video
Queensland boasts the toughest stance on youth crime in Australia but whistleblowers, advocates and children in the youth detention system say its policies are making the situation worse, and that young people are leaving detention centres scarred, angry and more likely to commit further crime. In the Guardian Australia series Written Off, reporter Ben Smee details the experiences of young people in Queensland’s justice system, where record numbers of children are being arrested and imprisoned