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Youth detention centres are an at capacity, with workers subject to daily extreme violence. That's according to the union, after members escalated strike action today. It comes ahead of the latest crime crackdown from the state government which is expected to see even more youths jailed.

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00:02Union! Power! Union! Power!
00:05Detention workers at breaking point.
00:11Guarding a system bursting at the seams.
00:14It is an absolute tinderbox.
00:16Australian workers union members walking off the job in Brisbane and Townsville for 24 hours.
00:23The AWU says there's more than one serious assault on a worker every day
00:28with no solutions or an improved wage offer from the government.
00:33The Premier says negotiations are ongoing, deflecting questions on whether centres would need to triple bunk detainees.
00:40We have invested significantly in the youth and the corrective services space and there's more coming online.
00:46Detention centre detainee numbers are horrific.
00:51Today we are at capacity at all four centres in this state.
00:55And there are more kids expected to come through the gates with the latest crime crackdown, Breach Bail Go To
01:02Jail, set to be introduced to State Parliament this week.
01:07It will see mandatory detention for offenders who commit serious crimes while on bail.
01:13The bail system in Queensland is broken. It needs reform and we are going to deliver that. We're continuing to
01:20do the work.
01:20But key details including the length of mandatory detention, if it will apply to adults or how the stretched corrective
01:28system will cope, remain unknown.
01:30All we've seen so far is a slogan, which to be honest is an omission that the LNP's signature crime
01:36laws have failed.
02:00We've seen so many humans in the months.
02:00That's a slogan and the Old ambient system will come up to the
02:01place in the middle of the neighbourhood challenges and those circumstances.
02:01The plans are hard to do with the conditions, which we will be in the middle of the days like
02:02that.
02:09Well, the people who have been in school are looking for that.
02:10We've seen a bit of a commission.

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