WA’s Youth Justice System in Crisis Before 16-Year-Old’s Death: Coroner

WA’s youth justice system in crisis before 16-year-old’s death: coroner

Everything must be done to ensure another child doesn’t die in youth detention, a coroner has told an inquest for an Indigenous teenager who fatally self-harmed while in custody.

Youth justice in crisis before teen's death: coroner

A coroner hearing an inquest for an Indigenous teen who fatally self-harmed in a youth detention says he...

Coroner flags special inquiry into Unit 18 in wake of teen's death in detention

The coroner investigating Western Australia’s first recorded death in youth detention says there is significant evidence the teenager’s needs were not met, and indicated he may call for a wider-ranging inquiry. WARNING: This story contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.

Mum decries 'barbarous' jailing of teen before death

An Indigenous teen's death after he self-harmed in a youth wing of an adult prison was "preventable and predictable", a coroner has heard.

Youth justice in crisis before teen’s death: coroner

Everything must be done to ensure another child doesn’t die in youth detention, a coroner has told an inquest for an Indigenous teenager who fatally self-harmed while in custody. 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 October 12, 2023. The 16-year-old was taken to hospital in a critical condition and died a week later, causi…