Custody for teen crims or GPS devices

The government announced the change to its youth justice laws last night to close a loophole that would have meant police would have to rely on a young person to front a watch house to fit them with the technology.A major plank of the government’s youth justice reforms is a trial of tracking devices as a condition of bail for 16 and 17-year old juveniles before the courts.Queensland’s anti-terror boss will head a new taskforce cracking down on youth crime across the state as the Palaszczuk…



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