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 December 2019 committed further crimes, a rate on par with youth reoffenders broadly.