Scandal: Report reveals children left soaked in urine and locked up for days, while prison guards use flash bombs and shotgun laser sights to control detainees.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull must intervene to protect WA children after a report revealed unprecedented levels of self-harm incidents in the state's only juvenile detention centre, Amensty International says.

Inspector of Custodial Services Neil Morgan noted there were five attempted suicides and 191 cases of self-harm last year at the Banksia Hill Detention Centre, compared to 77 cases of self-harm in 2015.

This year so far, one detainee has tried to take their own life and there have been 76 cases of self-harm.

Amnesty International says the abuses are on the same level as Don Dale in the Northern Territory, which sparked a royal commission.

"Today's revelations are the latest in the avalanche of horrors spilling out from youth detention centres around the country," Roxanne Moore, Indigenous Rights Campaigner for Amnesty International Australia said in a statement.

"How much suffering should children endure across Australia, before Prime Minister Turnbull admits this is a national crisis?"

"Prime Minister Turnbull cannot stand by, knowing that a young girl in Banksia was locked in solitary confinement for three days, and found soaked in her own urine from distress."

Mr Morgan said while there had been no suicides at Banskia Hill, the figures were cause for serious concern and some staff indicated self-harm was under- reported.

The number of "critical incidents" affecting safety and security, such as escapes and assaults, has also increased with 69 reported in 2016 compared to fewer than 30 in 2015.

Flash bombs and shotgun laser sights had been used to control detainees during violent incidents, which Mr Morgan said was unprecedented in either adult or youth facilities in the state.

Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.


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mothra wrote on Jul 24^th, 2017 at 12:55pm:



Well that is about the most stupid attempt at reporting anyone will see in a long while.


Why use what is essentially a fkken torch (Laser Sights) to try and control out of control children, do they think that kiddie crims go into cat mode when there is a moving red dot on the wall?


This is what you get when you use emotion instead of research and fact.


They would do better to get the little sh1ts under control using their shotties loaded with bean bag rounds. It tends to get the target very focused very quickly thus bringing any rioting under control.


Remember people they are in prison after many many convictions for many, many crimes and this is the last resort, they are NOT just wayward little kids in need of a fkken huge.


Soft c0ck socialist have lost control of these little sh1ts and then complain bitterly when some poor bastard has to get them under control. 

mothra wrote on Jul 24^th, 2017 at 1:13pm:



What distracting them with "Shotgun Laser sights"?


How is that unacceptable?


Poor reporting and moronic socialist ideology is what is unacceptable.

"Prime Minister Turnbull cannot stand by, knowing that a young girl in Banksia was locked in solitary confinement for three days, and found soaked in her own urine from distress."

Mr Hammer wrote on Jul 24^th, 2017 at 1:17pm:



You won't find too many socialist actually doing sh1t jobs like that, it is much better they abuse and critique those that do.

mothra wrote on Jul 24^th, 2017 at 1:20pm:



Do they stop committing large numbers of serious crimes, or do they just stop feeling bad about themselves when they do them?


I doubt they went without socialists hugs and kumbaya sessions in the lead up to prison. They behave the way they behave because that is who they are. The courts give them near unlimited chances all dripping with dignity and fkken respect.

mothra wrote on Jul 24^th, 2017 at 1:20pm:
Overwhelmingly, people treated with dignity and respect behave with dignity and respect.........

In jail kindness is weakness. Actually in society many people see it as weakness. Watch those jail shows in the US Mothra. Guards are fair but tough.

BigOl64 wrote on Jul 24^th, 2017 at 1:24pm:



Unsurprising that you are so unfamiliar with the concepts that you cannot rationalise how they are effectively implemented.