WA Law Society calls on Cook Government to take urgent action on troubled youth corrections system

WA's highest legal body urged an independent review of the state's youth justice system in a letter to the Cook government, saying repeated calls to improve it “have fallen on deaf ears”. In a letter sent this week to Premier Roger Cook and Minister for Corrections Paul Papalia, the Law Society of WA, the organisation … Read more

Death of teenager in custody triggers calls for judicial reform

The Australian Human Rights Commission is seeking an urgent meeting with the Premier of Western Australia after another Indigenous teenager dies in custody. Prison staff found the 17-year-old boy in his cell at Banksia Hill Youth Prison in Perth at around 10pm on Thursday. He is believed to have committed suicide.