Abuse of Children in Australian Prisons

Marissa speaks with disability advocate, Samantha Connor, Vice President with People With Disability Australia, about the Disability Royal Commission and guardianship orders. They discuss the importance of rights over decisions, and the "dignity of risk", which is the right to make the mistakes we all make.The Disability Royal Commission held a public hearing about experiences of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) backgrounds with disability.  Lived experience witnesses told the Royal Commission about their experience of intersectional discrimination as people with disability who are also members of another minority groupMarissa also speaks with lawyer, Nerita Waight, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service about the harm caused by "tough on crime" politics, and the alertnative plan for Aboriginal justice in Victoria. They discuss how the government is dragging its feet on prison reform and they discuss what prison abolition would look like.Marrisa and managing lawyer, Monique Hurley, with the Human Rights Law Centre talk about how Australia is under scrutiny by the United Nations anti-torture watch-dog. Australia is a signatory to the Convention Against Torture, and yet youth in detention are suffering abuse. They discuss the horrors revealed in ABC's Four Corners episode, Locking Up Kids.