Inmates used makeshift weapons to "target sex offenders" in an ongoing riot that has left at least six people injured at a juvenile justice centre on New South Wales' Central Coast. The riot broke out at Frank Baxter Juvenile Justice Centre at Kariong about 8.30pm on Sunday, with reports several inmates assaulted each other, NSW Police said in a statement on Monday. The union which represents prison guards said the offenders stole keys from an officer to obtain garden tools including a hedge trimmer and shovels from a maintenance shed at the state's largest juvenile justice centre. Public Service Association general secretary Stewart Little said the group targeted known sex offenders within the complex and described the riot as "nothing short of horrific". "We have a juvenile justice system that has descended into chaos," he told reporters in Sydney on Monday.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 22, 2019 01:41 UTC