Alice Springs Juvenile Holding Centre

Alice Springs Juvenile Holding Centre
Location Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Status Operational
Security class Maximum Security
Capacity 10
Opened ?
Managed by ?

Alice Springs Juvenile Holding Centre is a medium to high maximum security prison in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

Capability

It was designed for use as a short-term holding and remand centre for up to four days and can hold up to ten juveniles of either sex. Longer remand periods or sentences are moved to Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre in Darwin.[1] Despite this being against the recommendations of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, there is no plan to establish a longer term juvenile detention centre in Alice Springs.[2]

Added February 2011: This month, the Northern Territory Government announced they would be opening a Juvenile Detention Facility in Alice Springs with place for 24 detainees.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Juvenile Justice". Northern Territory Government Department of Justice. Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. http://web.archive.org/web/20070704222629/http://www.nt.gov.au/justice/graphpages/corrservs/juvjust/index.shtml. Retrieved 2007-07-08. 
  2. ^ "No plans for Alice youth detention centre". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. August 12, 2004. http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/nt/alice/200408/s1174933.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-08.