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| Teenage reoffending increasing in WA's north, despite million-dollar prevention program |
| By abc.net.au- Erin Parke |
| Published: 01/23/2017 |
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There are growing calls for a bush-based detention facility in northern WA, with young offenders, police and politicians agreeing children are returning from detention in Perth hardened and more criminally inclined. Each year, hundreds of children — who young offenders have told the ABC are being threatened with violence to commit break-ins by older people — are handcuffed and flown 2,000 kilometres to juvenile detention in Perth, in a process that is costing tax-payers more than half a million dollars a year in flights and security escorts. Kimberley Police Superintendent Allan Adams says the current system was clearly not working. "In my mind that's a failing of the Kimberley that our kids end up down there," he said. Read More. |
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