Australia Incarcerates Black Kids at Age Ten
In Western Australia, Aboriginal children are almost 50 times more likely to be in youth detention than white children. All you hear is keys, and doors opening, doors shutting. Its all you can basically hear at night and through the day. Just hear keys, keys and keys, just shaking and shaking, says a 13yearold Australian boy. The boy, who we will call Adam, has been imprisoned in Western Australias only youth detention centre, Banksia Hill, a dozen times. Adams parents were heavy drug users who had both taken their own lives by the time he was 10. Everyone was saying my mum and dad, they died from taking drugs. So I just thought, well they died from taking drugs and Im never going to see them again. So why dont I just like, you know just take drugs, see if Ill die. He soon wound up on the streets of the state capital, Perth, stealing to survive. I was just doing what my mates were doing to get a feed. Yeah, started this special investigation, 101 East meet
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