The Brisbane Youth Detention Centre is a youth detention center in Wacol, Queensland, Australia. It has a capacity of 306 children aged 10 to 18. [1] The centre opened in 2001. The Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services is responsible for the centre.
Each cell contains a bed, toilet, shower, desk and a shelf. [1] Bedding and toiletries are supplied. [1] Each child is given breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. [1] Phone calls of up to 10 minutes at a time totaling 120 minutes of call time each week are permitted. [1]
Detainees are allocated chores like cleaning but there is no hard labour. [2] Children are assigned a caseworker. Youth detention centres in Queensland have an education and training centre, which detainees are required to participate in five days a week. [1]
On 30 January 2017, seven detainees were involved in a riot. [3] They forced themselves on to the roof of an accommodation unit and caused severe damage to the centre's infrastructure as well as injuring staff. [3]
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