‘Dehumanising’: Aboriginal teen subjected to spit hood at Victorian prison

Now 18-year-old says a spit hood was placed over his head in a Victorian prison. Photograph: David Crausby/Alamy

DJ* was technically a child, in his eighth month inside an adult prison, when he was subjected to what he likens to “psychological torture”.

In February – in an incident criticised by Victoria’s Commission for Children and Young People (CCYP) – prison staff placed a spit hood over the head of the Aboriginal teenager, despite him never spitting at guards.