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REVEALED: Work begins to replace inhumane youth detention site | Vintage Vibes

A new youth detention facility is being built to replace a unit where a teen fatally harmed himself. (Callum Godde/AAP PHOTOS)

A troubled youth detention facility where a teenage boy fatally self-harmed after being held in "inhumane" conditions is set to be replaced.

Early work has started on a new $158 million facility to house Western Australia's most high-risk youth offenders, Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia says.

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