Unrestricted access: Australia to allow UN inspection of prisons and detention centres to stamp out torture

By Daniel Flitton
Updated February 9 2017 - 9:08pm, first published 4:19pm
A teenage Dylan Voller has a hood placed over his head and is strapped to a chair at the Don Dale Detention Centre in the NT. Photo: Four Corners
A teenage Dylan Voller has a hood placed over his head and is strapped to a chair at the Don Dale Detention Centre in the NT. Photo: Four Corners
Attorney-General George Brandis said Australia is committed to preventing torture and other mistreatment in places of detention Photo: Andrew Meares
Attorney-General George Brandis said Australia is committed to preventing torture and other mistreatment in places of detention Photo: Andrew Meares

Independent inspections at youth prisons or immigration detention centres will be permitted after the Turnbull government pledged to ratify a United Nations treaty in a bid to stamp out torture.

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