Don Dale Youth Detention Centre

Don Dale Youth Detention Centre
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LocationBerrimah, Northern Territory
Coordinates12°26′45″S 130°56′26″E / 12.445775°S 130.940616°E / -12.445775; 130.940616
StatusOperational
Security classMaximum, for juvenile[1] males and females
OpenedNovember 1991[1]
Managed byNorthern Territory Correctional Services

The Don Dale Youth Detention Centre is a facility for juvenile detention in the Northern Territory, Australia, located in Berrimah, east of Darwin. It is a detention centre for male and female juvenile delinquents.[2] The facility is named after Don Dale, a former Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1983 to 1989 and one-time Minister for Correctional Services.

On 25 July 2016, the ABC broadcast a Four Corners report that disclosed the abuse of youths in the Northern Territory corrections system which triggered the Royal Commission into Juvenile Detention in the Northern Territory.

  1. ^ a b "Comparative Youth Penality Project (CYPP): Major themes by decade". Australian Prisons Project. University of New South Wales. 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Don Dale Youth Detention Centre: Darwin - NT.GOV.AU".