Children don’t belong in prison

The Saturday Paper

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Children don’t belong in prison

We remember the image. In a bare, concrete prison cell, a child is strapped at the ankles, wrists and neck to a mechanical restraint chair. He has been stripped from the waist up. We can’t see his face because his head, slumping forward, is wrapped tightly in a white spit hood. Eight years ago, this image of Dylan Voller, obtained from inside the Northern Territory’s Don Dale