New Darwin prison holds troubled youth 'in good stead'

The Northern Territory government has unveiled its new Darwin youth detention centre. Video via AAP.

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00:00So this facility is virtually finished. It's a 44-bed facility.

00:05The young people that come in here will be on a pathway to turn their lives around,

00:09to improve their lives, to get an education, to get training,

00:13and not to find themselves coming back to this facility.

00:18Our government is very much focused on turning around the lives of young people.

00:23The young people who find themselves in a youth detention facility, that's the end of the line.

00:28We have that interim step with the residential youth justice facilities

00:31that we've been delivering across the Northern Territory,

00:34four residential youth justice facilities, but this is the detention facility.

00:39This replaces Don Dale.

00:42When this facility is opened, I don't want to hear the name Don Dale again in the Northern Territory.

00:48This is about replacing what we've seen in the past,

00:52all of the bad stories, all the negative stories that are linked to that previous facility.

00:59This is about turning the corner for youth in the Northern Territory that have done the wrong thing.