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Abe Maddison

High security centre to be 'world's best' youth prison

The WA government has announced plans for a new high-security youth detention centre. (Supplied/AAP PHOTOS)

A $100 million maximum security youth detention centre, touted as the best in the world, will be built near the troubled Banksia Hill facility in Perth.

West Australian Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia said the centre would be built as fast as possible and designed specifically for the "challenging cohort".

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