The state has additionally reached a brand new excessive for the typical variety of younger offenders in detention since 17-year-olds had been faraway from the grownup justice system, whereas the quantity beneath community-based supervision, resembling bail or group service orders, additionally fell.

The small print, specified by a report on authorities companies by the Productiveness Fee on Wednesday, come because the state prepares to construct two new detention centres regardless of long-standing plans to maintain younger folks out of such websites.

Regardless of Queensland locking-up extra younger offenders than some other state or territory, with a median nightly detention centre inhabitants of 274.9 throughout the 2021-22 monetary 12 months, the fee’s report notes the state had solely 288 completely funded beds.

This resulted in a centre utilisation fee of 95.5 per cent, up from 84.8 per cent within the earlier monetary 12 months and the very best since 2018-19 when 17-year-olds had been shifted from the grownup to youth justice system.

In NSW and Victoria, which had common nightly youth detention populations of about 186 and 120, a complete of 370 and 276 beds had been completely funded within the 2021-22 monetary 12 months.

Queensland additionally had the very best variety of younger folks beneath group supervision, at 920 — down from 1269 in 2018-19.

Simply this month, a Justice of the Peace stated two teenagers had been held in police watch homes for greater than two weeks, breaking police protocol, as a result of the state’s three detention centres had been “at capability”.