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Australia will pay $27m compensation to Indonesians held in adult jails when they were children (www.theguardian.com)
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Commonwealth agrees to settle with more than 120 Indonesians wrongly detained as adult people smugglers, some when they were as young as 12

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[โ€“] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Those 12 year old kids were not running a people smuggling operation. They were clearly victims not suspects.

Kids can definitely commit crimes, for example if they're caught driving 140km/h on a residential street in a stolen car... absolutely detain the kid.

But even then, you don't detail them for years. You detain them overnight, and you prosecute immediately (after, obviously, letting the kid talk to their parents and a lawyer).

[โ€“] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Goodness me.

Those 12 year old kids were not running a people smuggling operation.

This is true of course, but they were caught in the act of people smuggling, so they need to be processed according to the law. The people of Australia elect representatives which create Legislation. The police do not and should not have the authority or discretion to choose which laws they apply.