The treatment of detainees during transportation was scrutinised at today's hearing of the Northern Territory Royal Commission into Youth Justice.
Counsel representing former inmate, Dylan Voller, heard how a youth justice officer denied him a request for a toilet break during a five hundred kilometre car transfer from Alice Springs to Tennant Creek.
The officer transporting Voller, Bruce Evans, first pulled into the Titree police station, but the facility was closed.
Nearing the outskirts of Tennant Creek, Mr Voller was released for a toilet break. It was then when Mr Evans realised Dylan had defecated into his own shirt.
Security at Don Dale to be stepped up
Meanwhile, the Northern Territory Government has released a review of security arrangements at the controversial facility, and says
improved security cameras and electronic surveillance, better training and a full security audit have been recommended for the
Northern Territory's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre.
It will move on the operational and infrastructure improvement as a "matter of priority".
Minister for Territory Families Dale Wakefield says the number of escapes at Don Dale in recent months is unacceptable and highlights the urgent need to address security issues.
Don Dale 'completely different'
The principal of a school operating at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre says the facility is "completely different" now than when it opened in the early 1990s.
Tivendale School principal Lisa Coon, who has held a range of roles in the Don Dale centre since the 1990s, has told the royal commission into the Northern Territory's juvenile justice system that when it opened it was "akin to a hotel in many aspects".
She says both the physical centre and the nature of its young detainees have changed since then, with detainees now more likely to be "bigger" and facing longer sentences.
