Corrective Services

Continued delays in youth justice reform unacceptable: Greens

Greens spokesperson for Corrective Services Hon Alison Xamon MLC has today repeated her call for the Government to prioritise youth justice reform following revelations the Government has yet to identify alternatives to Banksia Hill Detention Centre (Banksia Hill) for girls and young women.

Ms Xamon said the Government’s response to recent questions in Parliament demonstrated an unacceptable failure to prioritise fixing youth justice.

CORRECTIVE SERVICES — PRISONER TRANSPORT

HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [9.58 pm]: I rise to speak on what I thought were pretty horrifying reports that came out on Sunday about a young Aboriginal woman who in August last year was transported naked, while handcuffed and covered in her own menstrual blood, from Bandyup Women’s Prison to Graylands Hospital. This case raises so many issues. It serves to highlight the unacceptably high and growing rate of imprisonment of Aboriginal Western Australians, something that should concern every one of us.

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