Katter’s Australian Party has been “road testing” rehabilitation camps as a sentencing option, which may lead to changes in Queensland’s child criminal laws.
Robbie Katter, the party’s leader, claims that rehabilitation rather than incarceration will benefit troublesome youths.
Young criminals would be educated in these camps, which were situated in the Northern Territory and rural bushlands, as well as given leadership and life skills training.
In his remarks to the media, Katter claimed that the camps “deliver a consequence to the kids first, but secondly they are giving them a platform to maybe change their ways and rehabilitate.”
You may split up family units, get rid of negative influences, and offer those kids a chance at success in life instead of bundling them all together.
The initiative was launched a few months after the Palaszczuk administration revealed its $500 million plan to construct two new juvenile detention facilities in Woodford and Cairns.
The trial sites, according to Katter, the son of former party chief Bob, could be operated for “less than $5 to $10 million,” he asserted.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk stated that she was pleased to consider the suggestions of the Katter party.
We will look into that because we do now have certain on-country programmes, she said.
