The Latest Breaking News from Banksia Hill

Premier Mark McGowan is facing criticism from Labor party elders and other prominent West Australians over issues within the justice system.

Former Australian of the Year Fiona Stanley says she's disappointed by a meeting with Mark McGowan last week to discuss the youth justice system, and is calling for greater involvement of Aboriginal Australians.

Journalist Grace Tobin gives an insight into the challenges of producing the Four Corners program Locking Up Kids, which investigated the treatment of youth at Western Australia's Banksia Hill facility.

The meeting in Mark McGowan's office was called after a week of intense pressure on the government, with a range of eminent figures decrying conditions in juvenile detention.

A prominent Indigenous leader details their young relative's violent experience at Banksia Hill Detention Centre, as a leading human rights advocate calls for a national plan to overhaul Australia's youth justice system.

As it emerges that no member of the WA government has set foot inside the troubled juvenile detention facility since February, a Greens MP urges ministers to see its "bleak" conditions for themselves.

WA's Corrective Services Minister says any local Perth government keen to host a youth detention centre should approach him amid growing calls for a decentralised youth justice system.

It seems the electoral popularity of being tough on youth crime still outweighs Aboriginal kids’ needs for therapeutic care. What is it going to take?

Human rights commissioners say urgent action is needed after program shows images of forcibly restrained children in Perth facility

A decade of failings at Western Australia's youth prison has been laid bare by an independent inspector as the premier rules out an inquiry into the facility.

The use of a 'figure four' or 'folding up' restraint technique in WA correctional facilities is set to be reviewed, with Premier Mark McGowan also announcing a meeting with key stakeholders over Banksia Hill Detention Centre.