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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

Queensland children may be pleading guilty to crimes they didn’t commit to avoid bail laws, report says

Queensland police minister Mark Ryan.
Queensland police minister Mark Ryan says the community expects ‘tough laws’, which result in more people in custody. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

Queensland children could be pleading guilty to offences they didn’t commit, a new report suggests, with the state’s police minister saying its nation-leading rates of youth incarceration reflect the “community’s expectation”.

The comments from Mark Ryan came after he released an eight-month-old report, assessing new bail laws designed to enable the Palaszczuk government’s “crackdown on youth crime”, late on Tuesday night.

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