Banksia Hill Detention Centre
A leading Indigenous legal expert has urged the WA government to fix the youth justice system as new figures show staff in the state's youth detention centres are being assaulted every second day on a...
The Aboriginal Legal Service of WA has called for urgent action by the federal government to address the crisis facing Western Australia's youth justice system and the basic human rights being denied...
Youth incarceration shouldn't be seen as a last resort, but one we "actively resist," leading human rights lawyers and Indigenous legal and policy experts have said.
Hundreds rallied outside WA Parliament last week as the campaign to close the state's notorious Unit 18 gained momentum. The rally called for the immediate closure of the child prison Unit, a complete...
The Law Society of Western Australia has written an urgent letter to the WA government, demanding an independent review of the state's entire youth justice system, after the deaths in custody of two t...
The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia says it was "devastated" to learn of the passing of the young boy overnight after he was found unresponsive in his cell at Banksia Hill Detention Cent...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss, National Children's Commissioner Anne Hollonds, and the Official Representative to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Is...
A leading Indigenous human rights and law expert says Western Australia's corrective services minister lacks the knowledge, experience and commitment to reform the state's trouble youth justice system...
Senator Lidia Thorpe has urged immediate federal intervention into the child prison system, after a 17-year-old boy died overnight in Banksia Hill youth detention centre in Western Australia.
Leading Indigenous justice advocates say the assault of a child in Unit 18 by a much larger and older prison guard captured on CCTV footage drives home the urgent need for immediate and long-term chan...
Footage from 2022 of Banksia Hill riot squad using force on a 16-year-old boy has been released, highlighting yet another "unacceptable and outrageous case of child abuse" and a youth justice system t...
Noongar hip hop artist Flewnt has served as a source of inspiration for youth at Banksia Hill Detention Centre in WA. The rapper has been encouraging the youth to write and record their own music albu...
The Director General of Western Australia's Department of Justice, Adam Tomison, has announced he is stepping down after seven years in the role.