Mick Gooda, the co-commissioner of the Northern Territory's youth detention royal commission, has blasted the decision to build a new youth detention facility next to an existing adult prison, warning it will lead to more "punitive" treatment of juveniles in detention.
Almost five years after the commission recommended the government close the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Darwin, Territory Families Minister Kate Worden announced on Thursday that the replacement centre would be complete by mid-2023.
