Coroner may call for prison unit where WA teenager Cleveland Dodd died to be closed

Philip Urquhart tells the inquest into the 16-year-old’s fatal self-harming that the state justice department failed in its duty of careGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEverything must be done to ensure no more children die in youth detention, a coroner has told an inquest into the death of an Indigenous teenager, including closing down the controversial prison unit where he fatally self-harmed.Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive inside a cell in Unit 18, a youth wing of the high-security adult facility Casuarina prison in Perth, in the early hours of 12 October 2023. Continue reading...

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