Banksia Hill
Young people held in Western Australia's notorious Banksia Hill Detention Centre have climbed on to the roof of the Canning Vale facility. Reports indicate at least six of the children held at Banksia...
The notorious youth detention facility where Yamatji boy Cleveland Dodd fatally self-harmed after being held in "inhumane" conditions is set to be replaced.
The Western Australian government is seeking expressions of interest from Aboriginal people across the state to join the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee for the next term.
A WA Government infrastructure report has revealed a long-promised new youth detention centre at Banksia Hill will not be ready until 2028 — a delay suicide prevention advocate Gerry Georgatos s...
Proud Noongar/Wongi man Joshua Eggington, AKA Flewnt from Boorloo, began his distinguished career as a rapper as "just me, a pen, and a pad —writing bars and dreaming big", he told National Indi...
A report from WA's Inspector of Custodial Services, Eamon Ryan, has found that crisis care units in the state's prisons are not meeting the needs of inmates who are suffering acute mental health issue...
Australia's child commissioner was prevented from entering youth prisons in Victoria and Western Australia during a national tour in 2023. As part of her "Help way earlier!
The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia says the state government's proposed youth bail changes will undermine the administration of justice, increase the likelihood of children being impris...
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 troubled youth wing of an adult prison where an Indigenous teenager fatally self-harmed should be closed "as a matter of urgency", a coroner has told a court.
The institutional racism and toxic culture at a troubled youth detention centre was so severe a consultant was afraid to raise it for fear of losing his job, the inquest into the death of Cleveland Do...
Western Australian Commissioner for Children and Young People Jacqueline McGowan-Jones has expressed her disappointment with the state government's response to her inquiry into the operating model of...
A Curtin University student has reportedly been suspended and banned from campus for one year for confronting Mark McGowan over the treatment of Aboriginal children in WA detention centres Banksia Hil...