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Magill Reformatory

Magill Reformatory

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Magill Youth Training Centre.

Criticisms and controversies

A Commission of Inquiry was held into Children in State Care and Children on APY Lands led by the Hon EP Mullighan QC 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.