Virtual Exhibition
You Can't
Unsee It
One shipping container. Three rooms. Thirty minutes.
per child, per day in detention
Designed by Young People
Young people who supported the build carry the first Room 1 story into a flexible Mount Druitt gathering and then the Adelaide activation on Kaurna Yarta. At every stop, local young people then shape the room from their own place and decide what the public needs to see.
Inside the CONTAINED detention cell replica
“No child should wake up in a concrete cell. This system isn't broken — it was built this way.”
There are 15 youth detention centres across Australia. Here's every one.
10 minutes locked inside
Every Facility
0 detention centres. 0 beds.
Every youth detention facility operating in Australia, with state-by-state spending from the Productivity Commission.
State Spending (ROGS 2024-25)
Full money trail →What if?
What if we spent $1.33M per child on healing instead of harm? Spain's Diagrama Foundation already proved it works.
Australian Detention
Diagrama Foundation, Spain Model
Photos from Ben Knight + Nic Marchesi's 2024 Diagrama study trip across Murcia and Madrid.
10 minutes of possibility
Deep Dive
The Diagrama Model
Spain's Diagrama Foundation runs therapeutic residential centres that replace punishment with education, empathy, and family connection. The results speak for themselves.
return per €1 invested
Social return on investment, independently verified
Video coming soon
“We don't treat young people as offenders. We treat them as young people who have offended — and who deserve the chance to grow.”
The organisations already doing it
Room 3 is where local organisations show the programs already working and name what they need funded. Mount Druitt gives the process a small first gathering, Adelaide gets a public activation beside Reintegration Puzzle, then every stop rebuilds it with local hosts.
Oonchiumpa
Alice Springs / Central Australia, NT
95% diversion success
BG Fit
Mount Isa, QLD
400+ young people yearly
Palm Island Community Company
Palm Island / Townsville, QLD
21 programs · 200 staff
MMEIC
Minjerribah, QLD (Quandamooka)
Elders-in-Council · 40 years on Country
10 minutes to see what works
Follow the Money
What if we moved the money?
$1141M spent on detention annually. $520M on community programs. That's 2:1 in favour of what doesn't work.
For the cost of ONE child in detention, you could fund 20 community programs
Detention reoffending rate — the system that costs more also fails more
Community program reoffending — a fraction of the cost, a fraction of the failure
A national network of basecamps
Imagine a Centre of Excellence connecting community organisations across Australia — sharing what works, channelling funding to evidence-based programs, and building the infrastructure for a justice system that actually heals.
Community orgs earn 30% of institutional subscriptions. The platform pays for itself.
National Tour
Where the container lands
The CONTAINED shipping container is touring Australia. Click a stop to see what's happening there.
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ALMA Intelligence
The data behind the doors
Every claim in this exhibition is backed by real data — tracked, verified, and open.
Real Stories
Behind the data, real lives
Stories from young people, families, and communities affected by the youth justice system.
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Reflect
What stays with you?
This is yours to keep. Write what you felt, what surprised you, what you can't unsee.Enroll via QR code to save your reflection.
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Who else needs to see this?
A politician, a teacher, a journalist, a friend. Someone whose perspective might shift.Enroll via QR code to submit a recommendation.
Now you've seen it.
What you do next matters.