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| Hakea prison's adult inmates 'in regular contact with juveniles held there' |
| By theguardian.com - Oliver Laughland |
| Published: 10/03/2013 |
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Adult inmates were in regular contact with juvenile detainees at Hakea prison in Western Australia, according to an ex-juvenile detainee who was transferred along with more than 100 juveniles to the adult prison after a riot in January that partially destroyed the state’s only juvenile detention centre. According to the former detainee, the first to speak out publicly about conditions inside the prison, adults and juveniles had regular contact on the prison’s oval and exchanged contraband goods, including tobacco and cigarettes. “When we were on the oval [during recreation time] some of the boys actually used to speak to the adult prisoners. It’s still going on,” the juvenile, who was only recently released from Hakea, told Guardian Australia. The juvenile said adults and juveniles were allowed on to the oval for recreation at the same time, with the oval partitioned by a fence which was not thick enough to prevent communication. The detainee added that after the transfer in January some adult inmates and juvenile detainees were “yelling at each other across units”, while incarcerated in their cells. This contact has since stopped. Amnesty International, which wrote to the WA Department for Corrective Services (DCS) in February to alert it to concerns about juvenile and adult inmate contact, said the allegations raised serious questions about whether holding juveniles at Hakea is in breach of Australia’s obligations under international human rights law. Rodney Dillon, Amnesty’s Indigenous rights spokesman, said: “If there’s kids and adult prisoners being together, that’s against all the conventions that Australia has signed up to. They [the department] said the kids wouldn’t be with adults in there. Under the UN convention on the rights of the child they are not supposed to be with adult prisoners.” Read More. |
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