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New funding for troubled WA youth prison

Western Australia's government will invest $25 million into the trouble-plagued Banksia Hill youth detention centre in next month's budget.

AAP · Apr 18, 2022

Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre gets $25 million to address 'dehumanising' conditions, cut incarceration rates

A children's detention facility slammed by Perth Children's Court President Hylton Quail as "dehumanising" and a place to "make a monster" receives $25 million in new government funding.

ABC News · Apr 18, 2022

Treatment of 15yo at Banksia Hill did not meet standards, Department of Justice admits

Department of Justice Director-General Adam Tomison concedes conditions are fraught at WA's Banksia Hill detention centre after the head of the Children's Court blasted its treatment of a teenager during a hearing this week.

ABC News · Feb 11, 2022