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	"author_name": "Latoya Rule",
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	"title": "BAN SPIT HOODS NATIONALLY",
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	"description": "Spit hoods are torture devices. No child should be strapped to a chair and hooded, like we saw at Don Dale in 2016. Similarly, we will never unsee 29-year-old Wayne Fella Morrison being held down by up to 12 officers as he was forced into a spit hood, cuffed, and put into the van face down. Fella never woke up. We know how dangerous spit hoods are. A spit hood is a mesh-fabric device that conceals your mouth, face, and often head – this can make it difficult to breathe. They are often forcefully pulled onto a person’s head and secured with an elastic band around the neck. But momentum is building for change. In 2021, South Australia became the first state or territory in Australia to ban spithoods in all contexts by law, after a 5 year campaign from Fella’s family. Now it&#x27;s time to ban them nationwide! Because horrifically, Northern Territory police continue to hood and restrain children at alarming rates today. This is years after the Northern Territory Royal Commission recommended that these practices be banned. Likewise spit hoods are being used in carceral settings in Western Australia, and just as well are permitted and have been used in other states. Limited oversight and lack of data reporting on spit hoods means we don’t always know the grave extent to which these are being used. This is scary. Around the world, international human rights organisations have called for an end to police and prison officers using spit hoods. Many people have died or been seriously injured. Spit hoods are a threat to human life, dignity and safety. Every young person who sees a spit hood used on another child has to live with this traumatising vision for life. We want these torture devices permanently banned. We want every single prison and police station in this country, every state and territory government, every mental health setting, to choose to treat people as humans. If spit hoods were banned, Fella might still be here. No other child would have to go through what young people in places like Don Dale have suffered. We won this change in SA and we can make this happen across the country. With your support, we can pressure people in government to decide to save lives by banning spit hoods today. Please, get behind us by signing and sharing this petition to ban spit hoods nationally. #BanSpitHoods Photo credit: Charandev Singh",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/ban-spit-hoods-nationally"
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