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Troubled youth prison unit should be closed urgently after Indigenous teenager Cleveland Dodd’s death: coroner

todayDecember 8, 2025

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16-year-old’s death was caused by longstanding failures in the justice system, coroner Phil Urquhart finds

The coroner investigating the death of Indigenous teenager Cleveland Dodd has called for the youth detention unit he was held in to be closed and investigated, after finding that his death was caused by longstanding failures in the justice system.

Cleveland was found unresponsive inside a cell in the trouble-plagued Unit 18, a youth wing of the Casuarina high-security adult prison, south of Perth, in the early hours of 12 October 2023.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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