Damning report on NT juvenile detention

THE NT government has promised to take on all 16 recommendations contained in a highly critical review of the territory's juvenile detention system.

A DAMNING review of the Northern Territory juvenile detention system reveals that staff training is grossly inadequate and that they have been operating in a "climate of daily crisis".

THE government commissioned the report after a number of high-profile break-outs and riots in the facility, peaking in August when the dog squad was called in and tear gas was used on one boy.