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Government abandons 'failed' bail houses after $31 million spend We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Government abandons 'failed' bail houses after $31 million spend Save Normal text size Advertisement A COVID-19 outbreak at a Brisbane youth detention centre in August has been blamed for keeping a report into a "failed" government program a secret before the October state election. The Labor government announced on Tuesday that it would abandon its controversial youth bail houses three years after they were launched and after $30.8 million ...

  There are two bail houses in Townsville and two in southeast Queensland, each with a maximum capacity of four. It cost taxpayers $8,833,695 to run the program last financial year, for 112 teens, at a cost of almost $80,000 each. Leanne Linard MP, Minister for Children and Youth Justice and Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Estimates Hearing Parliament House, Brisbane. Photographer: Liam Kidston Despite the cost, damning figures in the report show the $31m program did little to stop teens reoffending. More than 80 per cent of children who left bail homes between January 2018 and De...