A 14-year-old boy was locked in watch-houses for 10 days after he was wrongly identified by police investigating an armed ...

A psychologist says the overcrowding of young people in the Cairns police watch house is so bad it amounts to government-sanctioned child abuse. "I just don't understand why those abhorrent ...

Accommodation cells in the boys’ unit at the Cairns watch-house. Picture: Queensland Ombudsman She noted many kids locked up in watch-houses eventually left the Children’s Court without a ...