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vendingmachine commented on the word spit-hooding
"'Multiple incidents within the juvenile detention facilities have revealed that the NT Government prosecutes policies against Aboriginal children which include spit-hooding, gassing, hand cuffing, shackling and extensive periods of unlawful solitary confinement. Treatment such as this you wouldn’t think possible in any civilised nation.
Let there be no doubts as to whom we are talking about here.
This is all about Aboriginal children.'
What is spit-hooding? I understand the hooding part, but not spit. Australian detention centre.
August 4, 2016
bilby commented on the word spit-hooding
It's a bit like a mesh beekeeper's mask, though made of disposable fabric. It's supposed to dissuade a prisoner from spitting at guards by drastically reducing the pssibility that any spit gets through the screen to their target.
I think there might have been a problem with prisoner spitting, partly because with hands cuffed and so on there weren't many ways to lash out at the guards.
August 4, 2016
bilby commented on the word spit-hooding
It is not driving around the 'hood spitting, although I have seen people do that too.
August 4, 2016
vendingmachine commented on the word spit-hooding
Apparently, it's referred to an anti-spit mask (yawn) or a spit sock hood. Pretty much the same name. Does anyone have a law enforcement terminology list?
August 4, 2016