Tricked Indonesian Boys Languish in an Australian Adult Prison

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The crew members of "people smuggler" boats are being jailed in Australia. These are the boats taking would be refugees to Australia. In Australia people under 18 should not be in adult prisons, but the younger crew members from these boats don't have anything showing their age.

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THREE boys snatched by people smugglers from a poor Indonesian village have been held for months in an Australian jail with hardened criminals.
Federal police have ignored Immigration Department assessments and extracts of birth certificates showing the boys are under 18, contravening federal government policy to return children apprehended on asylum seeker boats.
Instead, the boys - aged 15 and 16 who were cooks and deck hands on an asylum-seeker boat - face five years' jail in a high security adult jail under harsh mandatory sentencing laws.

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