Disabled children kept ‘in cages’ in police watch houses, Australia’s children’s commissioner says

Children are being held in tiny cells with no windows and no fresh air for up to six weeks at a time, the national children’s commissioner, Anne Hollonds, says. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

Australia is criminalising disabled children and allegedly keeping them “in cages” in police watch houses, according to Australia’s national children’s commissioner.

“It seems the only thing we do in this country for kids with disabilities who have been failed by every other system, including health and education, is criminalise them,” Anne Hollonds told Guardian Australia.