Resource Section

Title

Motion - youthful delinquents, detention conditions

In

Hansard Archive 1870 to 1995

Imprint

Parliament of Western Australia, 2 March 1943

Url

https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard1870to1995.nsf/83cc4ce93b5d4e0b48257b33001cfef6/29483BF24EBE599B48257A4E001118AE/$File/19430302_Council.pdf

Description

'Motion - youthful delinquents, detention conditions' is an excerpt from the digital copies of the Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) of the Legislative Council of the Western Australian Parliament. It documents a discussion about 'youthful delinquents' during World War Two.See pages 2601-2605 for background about the Barton's Mill prison; and pages 2606 and 2608 (column 2)-2613 of the excerpt for information about the incarceration of 'youthful delinquents' during World War Two.

Related Entries

Glossary Terms

• Intellectual Disability

  p.2610-2611

• Juvenile Offending (1840s - )

Organisations

• Barton's Mill Prison (1942 - 1989)

  In 1943, there were 6 ‘youthful delinquents’ imprisoned at Barton’s Mill. pp.2609, 2611

• Bindoon (1936 - 1966)

  p.2609

• Chandler Boys' Farm (1932 - 1937)

  p.2611

• Clontarf (1901 - 1983)

  p.2609

• Home of the Good Shepherd Industrial School for Girls (1909 - 1979)

  pp.2609-2610

• Methodist Girls' Home (1917 - 1924)

  pp.2608-2609

• Seaforth Salvation Army Boys' Reformatory (1920 - 1955)

  pp.2608-2609