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Ellen Fanning and Kristy Sexton

Queensland youth justice minister says evidence provided to court by her department about 13yo boy's detention was not 'fulsome'

Jack and his mother say he was held for extended periods of isolation during his time in detention. (ABC News: Brendan Mounter)

Queensland's youth justice department will conduct an urgent review into how long a 13-year-old boy was held in solitary confinement at a Townsville youth detention centre.

The full audit is being prepared to calculate the precise number of hours the child spent alone in his cell during his incarceration.

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