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to modern methods of treatment of offenders." Boys were placed in "the cabin" or "the dungeon", a solitary confinement cell, for up to 48 hours if they had absconded or were seen as potential absconders. One boy aged 14 held in the centre in the early 1960s reported he was stripped naked and placed in solitary confinement for three days as a punishment for an attempted breakout. By 1983 corporal punishment was prohibited again, although children could still be placed in detention for up to eight hours.
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In 1969, after 10 boys absconded from McNally Training Centre, the superintendent at the time advocated the reintroduction of caning and the Minister of Social Welfare approved the policy, despite objections of the acting director of Social Welfare who held that caning was "degrading" and "contrary
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In 1993 the site became the Magill Training Centre to house young people aged 10–14, and the boys aged 15–18 were moved to a new purpose-built facility, the Cavan Training Centre. Young women from the South Australian Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (SAYRAC) were moved to Magill and housed at a
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In 1967 the site was established as the McNally Training Centre, for boys aged 15–18 sentenced by Juvenile Court or being held on remand. Younger boys aged 9–15 were sent to Brookway Park. In 1979 the McNally Training Centre became the South Australian Youth Training Centre (SAYTC) for youths aged
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in "pallid and dull appearance" and conditions described as "depressing" with "wearisome monotony of life", "gross improprieties" between younger children and older youths and officers, "deplorable" education standards and "defects in the dietary and want of open-air exercise". The Way Commission
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in 1885, the Adelaide Boys' Reformatory, South Australian Youth Training Centre, McNally Training Centre and Magill Youth Training Centre all received significant public criticism throughout their history. For example, in 1933 a former police superintendent described the then Adelaide Boys'
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described support available for young offenders as "second to none" and a spokesperson for Rankine stated that while "it's clear the Magill Youth Training Centre needs to be replaced in time" that the state budget "does not provide for that and there will be no change of heart".
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Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry : allegations of sexual abuse and death from criminal conduct presented to the South Australian Parliament by the Hon. E.P. Mullighan QC, Commissioner, Children in State Care Commission of
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The physical conditions were described as "run down", "appalling", and "a very, very sad place", with cells 2 by 3 metres (6 ft 7 in × 9 ft 10 in) in size, and windows too high for small children to see out of.
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was a wooden sailing ship built in 1852 which carried more than 1,800 immigrants from England to Australia. After leaking badly in 1866 it was declared unseaworthy and condemned and left to rot on the
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and tabled in South Australian Parliament in 2008. The commission heard from ten people held in the Magill Reformatory in 1950s and 1960s who were sexually abused or raped by staff and older boys.
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The site was closed in 2012, after the announcement of a new $ 67 million 60-bed facility to be constructed in Cavan to replace the Magill Youth Training Centre and Cavan Training Centre, at
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By the 2000s, the department acknowledged the need for a replacement facility for the ageing institution, and incidents at the facility between 2004 and 2008 were investigated for the
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The South Australian Children's Welfare and Public Relief Board was aware of sexual abuse at the site in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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immediate closure and relocation of the boys to a land-based facility. Six years later the boys were removed from the
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Amidst these criticisms, the then South Australian Minister for Families and Communities
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A Commission of Inquiry was held into Children in State Care and Children on
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tabled its report in State Parliament in 1885. The report recommended
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was ordered into the Destitute Board in 1883, which found the boys at
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Government of South Australia. Department for Environment and Water
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into the Jervois Basin, where it now rests among a group of other
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Reformatory as "an institution for bad boys to make others bad."
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and moved back to the site of the Magill Industrial School.
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Between 1880 and 1891, the boys were moved to a moored
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The first official State institution for children in
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Fitzjames (ship)
Magill Youth Training Centre is located in South Australia
Coordinates
34°54′28″S 138°41′07″E / 34.907736°S 138.685236°E / -34.907736; 138.685236
reformatories
youth detention centres
Woodforde, South Australia
Cavan
South Australia
Brighton
hulk
Largs Bay
Port River
Yarra River
Melbourne
South Australian Government
quarantine
infectious diseases
Royal Commission
Port River
scuttled
Jervois Basin Ships' Graveyard
Edwardstown, South Australia
Edwardstown
Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry
South Australian Parliament
APY Lands
Hon EP Mullighan QC
Youth Representative to the United Nations
United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child

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