How a school pushed 178 kids into the criminal justice system

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It was a judge's chance discovery that exposed the horror teens faced in a juvenile detention centre.

Now the unlawful jailing of four schoolboys over cannabis has sparked sweeping reforms on how the law deals with drug-addicted kids.

 

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