BANKSIA HILL DETENTION
CENTRE AND UNIT 18, CASUARINA DETAINEES —SUICIDE ATTEMPTS AND SELF-HARM
1256. Hon Dr BRAD PETTITT to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Minister for Corrective Services:
Will
the minister please provide the number of suicide attempts and self-harm cases
respectively for September 2022, October 2022 and November 2022 to date
at each of the youth detention facilities: Banksia Hill Detention Centre, and
unit 18?
Hon
MATTHEW SWINBOURN replied:
I thank the member for some notice
of the question.
The following answer has been
provided to me by the Minister for Corrective Services.
It is in tabular form and I seek
leave to have it incorporated into Hansard.
[Leave granted for the following
material to be incorporated.]
(1)
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Attempted
Suicide
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Self-Harm
– Serious
|
Self-Harm
– Minor
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Banksia
Hill Detention Centre
|
|
|
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September
2022
|
0
|
2
|
26
|
October
2022
|
0
|
0
|
38
|
November
2022 (to 22nd)
|
5
|
0
|
21
|
Unit
18 Juvenile Security
|
|
|
|
September
2022
|
2
|
0
|
25
|
October
2022
|
0
|
0
|
6
|
November
2022 (to 22nd)
|
1
|
0
|
20
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Definitions
Attempted
Suicide
|
An act where the circumstances indicate the intent of
the act was to take their own life through:(a) self-inflicted injury; or(b)
self-asphyxiation or hanging; or(c) intentional self-poisoning (including
drug overdose); or (d) other intentional acts intended to take one's
own life.
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Minor
Self-Harm
|
An act of self-harm that does
not require overnight hospitalisation, overnight care at a prison medical
centre/infirmary or ongoing medical treatment or any other act of self-harm
that does not result in injury.
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Serious
Self-Harm
|
An act of self-harm that requires either overnight
hospitalisation in a medical facility (including prison clinic/infirmary), or
ongoing medical treatment.
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