{"id":292516,"date":"2017-01-31T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/australian-state-labor-government-threatens-violence-against-detained-youth\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T13:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:10:01","slug":"australian-state-labor-government-threatens-violence-against-detained-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/australian-state-labor-government-threatens-violence-against-detained-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian state Labor government threatens violence against detained youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Australian state Labor government threatens violence against detained youth<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Eric Ludlow and Patrick Kelly<br \/>\n    <br \/>31 January 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The Labor Party government in the state of Victoria announced Friday that 40 adult prison guards will be deployed to two youth detention centres as part of a crackdown on alleged child rioters.<\/p>\n<p>The guards will be armed with batons and capsicum spray. They will also be authorised to use tear gas against targeted youth detained in the justice system. Premier Daniel Andrews described the move as a \u201cprofound change\u201d and \u201cbig step\u201d to security arrangements at the Parkville and Malmsbury youth centres. In a menacing press conference, he declared the guards had the training and equipment \u201cto return order\u201d and they would \u201cbe charged with doing just that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The premier also announced the construction of a new high security youth detention centre, supposedly to isolate serious and violent offenders. Describing what will effectively serve as an adult-style prison for children, Andrews declared it \u201ca significant investment \u2026 it will be many hundreds of millions of dollars, but it is absolutely necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> This follows the government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/01\/04\/poli-j04.html\">announcement<\/a> in December that $2 billion will be allocated to expanding the police force by an unprecedented 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The state Labor government\u2019s measures are part of the Australian ruling elite\u2019s wider assault on basic legal and democratic rights. Repressive measures are being especially directed against working class youth, as the political establishment anticipates stepped up social and political unrest.<\/p>\n<p> Last year, the brutal treatment of youth detainees, many of Aboriginal descent, in the Northern Territory was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2016\/12\/17\/yout-d17.html\">exposed<\/a>. Boys were assaulted and tear-gassed by detention guards, and hooded and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/01\/31\/yout-j31.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Australian state Labor government threatens violence against detained youth By Eric Ludlow and Patrick Kelly 31 January 2017 The Labor Party government in the state of Victoria announced Friday that 40 adult prison guards will be deployed to two youth detention centres as part of a crackdown on alleged child rioters. The guards will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}