Premier says government’s work on youth intervention is hard to publicise amid media focus on crime and punishment
Queensland premier Steven Miles says the government plans to open a number of ‘therapeutic’ prisons for young people, including a remand centre at Wacol and a new 80-bed jail at Woodford.Queensland premier Steven Miles says the government plans to open a number of ‘therapeutic’ prisons for young people, including a remand centre at Wacol and a new 80-bed jail at Woodford.
“There is a community expectation of consequences for action, and I don’t blame people for that,” Miles said. “The evidence, now that we have traditional detention centres operating side by side with therapeutic detention centres, is the rate of recidivism is lower after spending time in our therapeutic centres,” Miles said in the podcast. “And that’s why we’re building more of them.”“So what we also know, though, is, for many of these young people, detention is an appealing place to be,” Miles said.
“Sometimes I think … about myself as a young, ideological person interested in politics, and I wonder whether I would have been drawn to the Greens, and … I realise I wouldn’t have been,” he said. “For me the power of politics is about being able to govern, getting into government and making a difference.”
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