WA news LIVE: WA prison report reveals overcrowding, repeat offender rates skyrocketing
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WA’s prison watchdog has revealed 18 of the state’s facilities are operating over capacity, with 111 people in custody sleeping on mattresses on the floor.
The Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services 2025/26 annual report, released today, showed there were 7,809 adult males and 888 adult females in prison, nearly half were Aboriginal people.
In youth detention, there were 77 boys and three girls, with the percentage of Aboriginal children even higher than the adult populations, at 69 per cent for young males.
The controversial Unit 18 - a unit in an adult prison for disruptive juveniles - as of June 2026, had no occupants.
It costs around $388 a day, or $141,620 a year to house a prisoner. In juvenile detention it skyrockets to $4,533 a day.
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