Question regarding the number of children and young people in Banksia Hill Detention Centre, including details on sentencing and mandatory custodial sentences. Some information was not held by the Department.

AnsweredQoN 2383Legislative Council
Asked
13 August 2019
Portfolio
Emergency Services; Corrective Services

QuestionView source ↗

I
refer to children and young people currently in Banksia Hill Detention Centre
(Banksia Hill), and I ask: (a) what
is the current muster; (b) how
many children and young people are sentenced; (c) how
many of the children and young people from (b) are in custody as the result of
sentencing under mandatory custodial sentencing provisions; (d) for
what mandatory sentencing offences are the young people from (c) in custody; (e) how
many of the unsentenced children and young people in Banksia Hill have been
charged with offences that carry a mandatory custodial sentence; and (f) will the Minister please advise which offences the children and
young people in (e) have been charged with?

AnswerView source ↗

Answered
17 September 2019
Responded by
Minister for Environment representing the Minister for Emergency Services; Corrective Services
Response time
9 days
(a) 95 as of 4 September 2019.
(b) 43 as of 4 September 2019.
(c - f) Department of Justice - Corrective Services does not hold this information.

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