Children might be pleading guilty to crimes they did not commit "to avoid the impact" of Queensland's tough bail laws, lawyers have warned during a review of last year's youth crime crackdown.
The long-awaited report into the first six months of the Palaszczuk government's youth justice changes also revealed that in some of the state's watch houses, young people were held for longer in 2021 than 2019 – the same year a Four Corners expose triggered an overhaul.
