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Michael Ramsey

Outrage as WA youths moved to adult jail

Children are being blamed for a failure of duty of care, Greens senator Dorinda Cox says. (AAP)

A plan to move 20 detained children in Western Australia to a maximum-security adult prison shows the state's justice system is broken, advocates say.

The boys, aged as young as 14, will be moved from Perth's Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre to a standalone facility at nearby Casuarina Prison.

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