$120k a day for jail kids

LOCKING up children in WA is costing taxpayers almost $120,000 a day, as the number of juveniles held in detention continues to rise. 
 
Over the past five years the bill for keeping young offenders behind bars has gone up 30 per cent, while the number of child inmates on an average day has increased almost one-third.

It now costs taxpayers $667.43 per child per day to keep the state's young criminals in detention.
That compares with $622.38 last financial year an increase of around $40 a day.    More