NT teens kept in 'inhumane' cells: report

WHILE agreeing with the bulk of a report into systemic failures of the NT youth justice system, the corrections commissioner says it cherry-picked facts.

A REPORT on a major disturbance at a Darwin juvenile detention centre cherry-picked facts and ignored context, the Northern Territory's Corrections Commissioner says.

A REPORT by the NT Children's Commissioner has criticised inadequate staff training and inhumane solitary confinement cells at the former Don Dale youth detention centre, in which six teen prisoners were held for up to 17 days, when the maximum allowable period is three days.