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Sarah Collard

‘We will see a death’: advocates fear for children inside maximum-security Perth prison after boy self-harms

Prison Megan Krakouer Perth Jacqueline McGowanJones Richard Wainwright Suicide Banksia Hill Department of Justice
Protesters march towards the Department of Corrective Services and the Department of the Attorney General during a rally in Perth. The protester at the front if wearing a black hoodie and surgical mask and carrying a sign saying 'no more kids in custody'. Another protester to their right has a sign that signs 'detained caged'
The WA government last month transferred 17 young people from a Perth juvenile detention centre to a maximum-security adult jail. Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP

Advocates have sounded the alarm after a teenager detained in a maximum-security adult prison in Western Australia required medical treatment after self-harming.

The teenager was taken to hospital this week from a facility in Perth’s Casuarina prison, Guardian Australia has confirmed.

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