Minister Papalia walked back the comments about conditions in detention during question time in parliament on Wednesday.
WA Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia has corrected comments he previously made in parliament about the conditions inside youth detention .
Minister Paul Papalia on Tuesday told state parliament he had been informed that Judge Hylton Quail had written to his magistrates to tell them conditions at the Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre were not a reason not to incarcerate juveniles there. He said they required "correction so that the Parliament and public are not left with a wrong impression about the court".
"That would of course not be appropriate, and I just wanted to confirm that any suggestions this occurred is inaccurate," Mr Papalia told parliament.The tragedy of WA's first recorded death in juvenile detention last year sparked a damning coronial inquest that showed how broken the system that locked up teenagers was. Yet 10 months later, here we are again.
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