The revelations about Tasmania's Ashley youth prison are ratcheting up the pressure to close the facility, with the government saying it needs time to get replacement facilities in place — but the nation's leading advocate for children says it's 'disturbing' the prison will be open for 'another day', let alone several years.
Mr Dillon said the evidence of what children and young people had been subjected to at Ashley was appalling.
On Friday UNICEF Australia tweeted that it was deeply concerned by reports of "children subjected to extreme violence & sexual abuse inside Ashley". Ashley Youth Detention Centre is set to close by 2024 and be replaced by two purpose-built facilities.Tasmania's Commission of Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings started examining the Ashley Youth Detention Centre last week., and were discouraged from reporting allegations of sexual abuse to police.
University of Tasmania Professor of Criminology Robert White reviewed the centre in 2011 and found it was not fit for children."We don't have three years of transition; I would get rid of it immediately."
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