Inside the shocking child detention centre where six boys in isolation cells were allegedly tear gassed

SIX boys held in isolation cells were allegedly tear gassed at a juvenile detention centre in the Northern Territory in an ongoing pattern of abuse, a shock investigation claims.

SIX boys held in isolation cells were allegedly tear gassed at a juvenile detention centre in the Northern Territory.

ABC Four Corners will broadcast footage of the 2014 incident at Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Darwin on Monday night, showing five boys were locked in their cells at the time.

Authorities had described the incident as a riot and claimed multiple boys had escaped their cells.

A look inside the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Darwin. Picture: Four Corners/ABC

Four Corners reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna explores the issues inside the detention centre in which children have been confined to an isolation wing with no access to sunlight or running water.

Children, some as young as 10, are reportedly stripped naked and assaulted.

“What’s going on with children in detention here is a deliberate, punitive, cruel policy,” a lawyer said on the program.

Originally published as Inside the shocking child detention centre where six boys in isolation cells were allegedly tear gassed