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Greens MP says letters tabled in parliament allege young people ‘enduring worse conditions than … farm animals’ at Banksia Hill and Casuarina facilities
“Horrific” allegations made by youth detainees, of sexually inappropriate behaviour and excessive use of force by officers, being forced to sleep naked or in wet clothes, wear clothing stained in other people’s blood, and long lockdowns in “derelict conditions” were tabled in Western Australian parliament Thursday night.
The Greens MP Brad Pettitt tabled 58 letters of complaint written by the Aboriginal Legal Service of WA (ALSWA) and sent to the WA government, that he said showed young people in Banksia Hill and Casuarina prison’s Unit 18 are “enduring worse conditions than those for most farm animals in the state”.
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