Paul Papalia
A $100 million maximum security youth detention centre, touted as the best in the world, will be built near the troubled Banksia Hill facility in Perth.
Western Australia's prisons minister has rejected criticism of the WA's youth detention system from the state's peak legal body. The Law Society of WA wrote to Minister Paul Papalia and Premier Roger...
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...
The Western Australian Commissioner for Children and Young People Jacqueline McGowan-Jones has rejected claims by Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia that she gave a "glowing" recent review of B...
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...
A coronial inquest into the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd, who took his own life in the Unit 18 youth detention facility at Perth's Casuarina Prison, has been set down for April 3.
WA's Corrective Services Minister has been condemned by legal professionals for comments criticising judges and magistrates over their sentencing of juvenile offenders.
The WA Police Minister Paul Papalia has defended the lack of air-conditioning in the notorious Unit 18 at Casuarina Prison as a heatwave hits the state.
Kullarri Regional Communities Indigenous Corporation has partnered with the Western Australian government's Department of Justice to implement a pilot program to support at-risk youth in the Broome ar...
Lawyers have criticised the West Australian government's complaints regarding a magistrate's ruling involving a 10-year-old Indigenous child, labelling it "inappropriate" and undermining the public's...
A teenager held in Western Australia's notorious Unit 18 youth detention facility was taken to hospital Friday after being found with fabric wrapped around his neck.
An ABC investigation has revealed that the senior officer on duty the night Cleveland Dodd attempted to end his life was lying down in his office with the lights off, partially undressed, when the Ind...
Western Australia's Minister for Corrective Services Paul Papalia has given no indication Unit 18 at Perth's Casuarina Prison will be shut down following the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd in Oct...
