Youth crime has become a national issue once again – front page stories from Queensland, to the Northern Territory, to Western Australia are all raising the alarm that young people in regional towns are making the streets unsafe.

The WA Premier Mark McGowan said last week: “parents and families need to parent”... and people shouldn’t point the finger at governments.

But his government’s only youth detention facility, Banksia Hill, has unlawfully locked down children for 23 hours a day, thousands of kilometres from family and friends.

Today, contributor to The Saturday Paper Jesse Noakes on the children who get caught up in the criminal justice system and what happens when they’re locked away.

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Guest: Contributor to The Saturday Paper, Jesse Noakes.

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