The abuse of children in Don Dale and other prisons is a national shame | Roxy Moore

Our children need to be strong in culture and have opportunities to thrive, not be locked up and bashed, says IndigenousX host Roxanne Moore

“Systemic and shocking failures”; “regular, repeated and distressing mistreatment”; “ignored at the highest levels”: these are the findings of the royal commission into the protection and detention of children in the Northern Territory, which on Friday released their report describing a brutal and barbaric injustice system for kids.

As awful as the findings are, the truly horrific thing is that they are all too familiar. In the past year these same kinds of abuses of children have been reported in every child prison in this country.

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