A warning in this interview we'll be discussing incidents of self-harm and to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised we also may bring up the name of a person who has died. Hannah McGlade is an expert in Indigenous Human Rights she says the state government is not listening to First Nations peoples when it comes to youth detention.
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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.