Series 7, Episode 1- Juvenile Detention
Wednesday 25 May 9.00pm
The award-winning, You Can’t Ask That is back with answers to all the questions you’d never ask a stranger. This episode looks at Juvenile Detention and questions how we deal with some of the most damaged kids in society.
The award-winning, You Can’t Ask That is back for a seventh season with answers to all the questions you’d never ask a stranger. Each unflinching episode features misunderstood, judged, or marginalised Australians, answering anonymous online questions from the public.This episode looks at Juvenile Detention and questions how we deal with some of the most damaged kids in society. In Australia children can be sent to juvenile detention as young as ten years old.
In most states in Australia if you have been incarcerated in juvenile detention you are never allowed to talk about your experience to the media without seeking permission from the courts. In this episode of You Can’t Ask That, we hear from seven people incarcerated for varying length of times over the past 50 years. There are no blurred faces, there are no silhouettes.This is the first time Glenn Broome, 58, has been interviewed about his time in juvenile detention. Glenn didn’t start life easy, “Shortly after I was born my mother handed me into a police station and took her life, so I grew up in care until I was 22.” Glenn spent much of his youth in and out of Juvie.
Glen picks up the question card, “Did it fix you?” he speaks calmly and with conviction “It made me buckled and twisted along with hundreds of others.“