Tonight on abc730: The longest-serving president of Western Australia's children's court has slammed the state's youth justice system as 'broken'. RhiannonShine
The longest-serving president of Western Australia's children's court has slammed the state's youth justice system as "broken" and "a basket case".In April, WA's prisons watchdog outlined "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" of detainees in Banksia Hill's ISU
Mr Reynolds said the situation at Banksia Hill Detention Centre — WA's sole youth detention facility — had deteriorated over the last decade."The court doesn't have, and I ceased to have, confidence in the department in delivering proper rehabilitation programs to the children," he said. On July 21 this year, Judge Quail described the experience of a 13-year-old child at Banksia Hill over the preceding month as "harsh, punitive and of no rehabilitative effect".
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