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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Peter Brewer

Children isolated while in custody at Bimberi, even post-COVID: report

Children were held in isolated custody for up to seven days for reasons of "health segregation", months after COVID restrictions had eased in the general ACT community.

And the independent team sent into investigate conditions at the Bimberi Youth Detention Centre was not offered the opportunity to speak to any of the children in custody, nor given access to the electronic record-keeping system operated by the Community Services Directorate.

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