00:00The Premier has been out of touch with this issue and he really does need to be realistic.
00:09This is a child that has just died last night, a 17-year-old Aboriginal boy who had his whole
00:14life before him and his incarceration at Banksia has certainly contributed to his death.
00:20So why he's saying this, trying to tell us that things are good out there is absolutely
00:26not true.
00:27I think that these places are very dangerous but the answer is not CCTV footages and checking.
00:34It really is about actually making sure kids aren't going to prison unnecessarily in the
00:39first place and that they're getting the help and support that they need in the community
00:43because prison, barbed wires, locked doors, solitary confinement that goes on for days,
00:49it's just incredibly dangerous to children's health and wellbeing, to the safety, to their
00:54lives actually.
00:55A 10-year-old is too young for children to be in prison, let's start turning this situation
01:00around, stop harming traumatised children, stop driving them to their deaths.
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