WA Premier Mark McGowan’s comments on youth crime are a political strategy to distract from the unlawful treatment of children in the state’s youth justice facility, a former president of the WA Children’s Court says.
But former WA Children's Court president, Denis Reynolds, told a public forum those comments were "seriously misleading" and distracted from the issue at hand, which was whether Banksia Hill was fit-for-purpose.
He said rolling lockdowns, which have seen children detained in their cells for more than 20 hours a day, were deemed unlawful in a Supreme Court judgement handed down in August.Damage to a donga at Banksia Hill Detention Centre from a recent riot. The treatment of children and young adults in Banksia Hill is at the centre of a court case against the WA government.
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