Paul Brecht, Evans Head
Shame, NSW Government. It’s bad enough that the government locks up refugees; now a juvenile justice inmate is suing the government for alleged abuse.
At the time, the inmate was 16 and was put in solitary confinement for 22 days in a month. During recreation they were handcuffed.
Is this 1818 and not 2018? What sort of society have we become? I’d say inhuman.
I thought the heartless Howard years were bad but this… the inmate just happens to be Indigenous, to rub the salt in.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
