Greens senator Dorinda Cox says children at Banksia Hill being traumatised in ways that will harm them for the rest of their lives

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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.

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian.