Youth inmates are today being moved out of the current Don Dale facility and into the new Holtze Youth Detention Centre in Darwin, the Corrections Commissioner said, to make way for 50 low-security adult male prisoners who will take over their space in the old Berrimah prison by next month.
Corrections Commissioner Matthew Varley said in a statement on Monday that the new youth facility at Holtze is now open and will “house young people who are on remand or have been sentenced”, which was designed to focus on rehabilitation strategies to “provide young people with the life and vocational skills required to choose a better path once the leave detention”.
The cost blowouts are beyond reasonable. There are still projects being delivered and no news on how they will end up. It needs an inquiry into the delivery of projects by the departments.