Children pinned to floor and forced to wear spit hoods at South Australian detention centre
Ombudsman says restraint device ‘inherently traumatic’ and should be phased out
Children as young as 13 were pinned on the floor by youth justice workers and forced to wear spit hoods in a South Australian detention centre, a report by the state’s ombudsman has found.
SA is the last state in Australia to permit the use of spit hoods in youth detention centres after their use in the Northern Territory’s Don Dale youth detention centre was exposed and sparked a royal commission in 2016.