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Anger over 14-year-old boy's move from Banksia Hill youth detention centre to Casuarina Prison

A prominent Perth lawyer has expressed outrage that a client aged just 14 is now being held at Casuarina prison, saying he's been given no reason for why the boy was transferred to the maximum-security adult jail.

Criminal lawyer Seamus Rafferty said he had been scheduled to see the boy at Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre later this week, but he received an email on Monday informing him that the teenager was being transferred to "unit 18".

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