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Typically ultra-competitive law firms have united to oppose the WA government's stance on youth justice, which they say is failing children.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Those decisions found certain detainees had been unlawfully detained while in the state's only juvenile detention centre Banksia Hill and a separate facility inside the adult Casuarina Prison.

After the most recent judgement was handed down, a government spokesperson insisted extensive work had been undertaken to address the issues "with updated practices to ensure any necessary confinement is within the law".

But a woman named Joanne – who told the crowd she'd spent time in juvenile detention and prison before becoming a support worker – said the justice system was fundamentally flawed.

One of the government's loudest critics around youth justice issues – the state's longest-serving Children's Court President Denis Reynolds who is now retired, spoke of similar solutions.

Mr Reynolds said the government had failed to listen to the first Supreme Court judgement, and criticised the recent decision to move more adult prison guards into Banksia Hill.

Bringing Them Home WA executive director, Noongar man Jim Morrison, said many of the problems which led Indigenous children to youth detention had their roots in intergenerational trauma, shaped by the stolen generations.


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