A riot at Perth’s controversial Banksia Hill youth detention heart bumped into the early hours of the brand new yr as detainees took to rooftops and lit a hearth earlier than being returned to their cells.
Western Australian officers stated the New 12 months’s Eve disturbance concerned 22 detainees, who climbed fences and on prime of buildings late on Saturday afternoon.
Two demountable buildings had been broken by fireplace earlier than the blaze was put out by firefighters, the state’s Division of Justice stated in a press release.
The detainees progressively got here down from the fences throughout the evening and the final one was secured of their cell by 12.45am on Sunday, New 12 months’s Day.
No workers or detainees had been injured within the incident, whereas a injury evaluation can be carried out throughout the day, the division stated.
Specialist police had been deployed to the power, situated close to Fremantle, and authorities stated there had been no menace to the broader neighborhood throughout the riot.
It comes days after the state’s Aboriginal Authorized Service went to the Supreme Court docket searching for a judicial evaluate of continuous lockdowns on the detention heart.
In August, Supreme Court docket decide Paul Tottle dominated {that a} teenage boy was unlawfully locked in his cell for as much as a day at a time at Banksia Hill.
Justice Tottle discovered the boy’s therapy was not approved below the Younger Offenders Act, regardless of the power’s issues with insufficient staffing.
-AAP
