Corrective Services

2973. Hon Alison Xamon to the minister representing the Minister for Corrective Services:

I refer to the use of separate confinement in Western Australian prisons, and I ask:

(a)  for each prison and Banksia Hill Detention Centre separately, on how many occasions were prisoners subject to a separate confinement order in:

(i)  2018–19;

(ii)  2019–20 to date;

(b)  how many of the orders in (a)(i) and (ii) were made by a:

HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [10.00 pm]: I rise tonight to make some comments about solitary confinement in relation to some events that occurred today. I have to say that judging by the debate we have just had, there is a fair bit of pertinence in what I will say.