Inspector of Custodial Services Eamon Ryan warned care needed to be improved for the other youth detainees in the unit at Perth’s maximum-security adult men’s prison.
We need respectable bedrooms for our neediest children,not grotesque stir-crazy jail cells,or we risk the next generation being even worse off than the current.
The family of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd has pleaded with the state to “act now,today” to prevent another youth dying needlessly and tragically in detention.
A letter has surfaced which flagged concerns for a teenage Aboriginal inmate two weeks before he attempted suicide at the Unit 18 youth wing of Casuarina Prison.
The Aboriginal prisoner has been rushed to hospital after he was found unconscious last night in the Unit 18 youth wing of Casuarina Prison.
Then-premier Mark McGowan took a hardline stance against detainees involved in riots at the facility. A scathing assessment in a royal commission report will increase pressure for a softer approach.
Hodgson believes the justice system has failed him after the teenage boy who forever changed his life was freed from prison only to offend again months later.
Guards at Western Australia’s only youth detention centre will get a 12 per cent pay rise in a bid to retain staff at the beleaguered facility.
The court found the Department of Justice unlawfully locked three young people in their cells at Banksia Hill Detention Centre and Unit 18 inside an adult prison.
A read of inspector Eamon Ryan’s report reveals staffing issues are ultimately at the heart of most of the issues in the facility,more staff means less time kids are locked in their cells and more opportunities for detainees to take part in rehabilitative programs.
The report will heap pressure on new Premier Roger Cook and new Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia,who are both officially just one day into their jobs.