2383. Hon Alison Xamon to the minister representing the Minister for Emergency Services; Corrective Services:
I refer to children and young people currently in Banksia Hill Detention Centre (Banksia Hill), and I ask:
(a) what is the current muster;
(b) how many children and young people are sentenced;
(c) how many of the children and young people from (b) are in custody as the result of sentencing under mandatory custodial sentencing provisions;
(d) for what mandatory sentencing offences are the young people from in custody;
(e) how many of the unsentenced children and young people in Banksia Hill have been charged with offences that carry a mandatory custodial sentence; and
(f) will the Minister please advise which offences the children and young people in (e) have been charged with?
Hon Stephen Dawson replied:
(a) 95 as of 4 September 2019.
(b) 43 as of 4 September 2019.
(c)–(f) Department of Justice – Corrective Services does not hold this information.