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Name: Teenage criminals to wear ankle bracelets
Uploaded: 2024-03-20T10:15:21.326Z
Duration: 2 min 22 s
Description: A “betrayal of children” and a “gutless backflip” - those are just some of the ways advocates are describing new youth bail law reforms in Victoria. The state government wants to start using electronic ankle bracelets on children, and has confirmed it will abandon its promise to change laws to give children a presumption of bail.

Teenage criminals to wear ankle bracelets

Published 20 March 2024, 9:53 am

A “betrayal of children” and a “gutless backflip” - those are just some of the ways advocates are describing new youth bail law reforms in Victoria. The state government wants to start using electronic ankle bracelets on children, and has confirmed it will abandon its promise to change laws to give children a presumption of bail.

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