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ALS launches legal challenge to WA government over 'inhumane' detention of children at Banksia Hill, Casuarina

WA’s Aboriginal Legal Service is again taking the state government to the Supreme Court over its treatment of young people held in detention, saying others' attempts to raise concerns have fallen on “deaf ears”.

In August, the court ruled that it had broken its own laws by keeping a boy locked in his cell at Banksia Hill Detention Centre for up to 24 hours a day.

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