Staff at the maximum security facility in the city’s south-eastern suburbs provided first aid until paramedics arrived,but could not revive the 28-year-old.
Prisoners across the state will now have access to treatment for drug and alcohol issues immediately after arrest under a new $2.5 million intervention pilot.
The corrections worker who found Cleveland Dodd after he self-harmed says the prison unit where the incident happened “was set up to fail”.
Teenager Cleveland Dodd threatened to self harm eight times on the day he tried to take his life at the Unit 18 youth wing of Casuarina Prison,an inquest has been told.
In her final report to parliament,outgoing Ombudsman Deborah Glass has described “a battle for my independence,with gender overtones”.
The government has been accused of betraying Aboriginal youths and walking away from its commitments after dropping the plans.
A prison guard pleaded with convicted killer Jessica Camilleri as her hair was ripped from the scalp in an assault nearly identical to attacks two years earlier.
Almost everyone had heard about the Sydney man’s regime of sexual cruelty. The boys’ club kept him safe to prey on more women.
A man has died in custody at Hakea Prison after a fire at the facility in Perth’s south-east.
The extraordinary move comes as the Prison Officers’ Union warned Hakea was a tinderbox waiting to explode,with fewer staff dealing with more prisoners as cell temperatures climb above 50 degrees.
More than 2000 “shivs”,knuckle dusters and bludgeons have been found inside Victoria’s network of 12 prisons over the past five years – a rate of about one weapon a day.