ABC News (Australia) published this video item, entitled “Western Australia’s youth justice system is ‘broken’, says former children’s court president | 7.30” – below is their description.
Sixteen boys are being held in a maximum security jail in WA along with hundreds of the state’s most serious adult offenders. They were moved from youth detention into a wing of the adult prison because of unruly behaviour. As Rhiannon Shine reports, their treatment has been labelled “inhumane” and “dehumanising” by those who know the system the best, including the former president of WA’s Children’s Court.
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