Hon Dr Brad Pettitt asks the Minister for Corrective Services about the population of Unit 18 at Banksia Hill Detention Centre, with the Minister providing data on average, current, lowest, and highest populations for the year to date.

AnsweredQoN 439Legislative Assembly
Asked
25 June 2025
Portfolio
Corrective Services

QuestionView source ↗

Banksia Hill Detention Centre—Unit 18 detainees
439. Hon Dr Brad Pettitt to the minister representing
the Minister for Corrective Services:
I refer to youth
detention.
(1) What is the average population of unit 18 for
each calendar month of this year to date respectively?
(2) What is the current population of unit 18?
(3) What has been the lowest population of unit 18
this calendar year to date?
(4) What has been the highest population of unit
18 this calendar year to date?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the
honourable member for some notice of the question. The following answer has
been provided to me by the Minister for Corrective Services.
(1) The answer is in tabular form so I seek leave
to have it incorporated into Hansard .
Leave granted for
the following material to be incorporated.
Table 1: Prisoners
in Custody as of Midnight 23 June 2025, by Facility.
Month
ADP
Jan 2025
5
Feb 2025
5
Mar 2025
9
Apr 2025
12
May 2025
10
Jun 2025 a
10
a Incomplete month
as of 24 June.
(2) There were 12
young people as at midnight 24 June 2025.
(3) It was two.
(4) It was 14.

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