The corrections worker who found Cleveland Dodd after he self-harmed says the prison unit where the incident happened “was set up to fail”.
A 17-year-old Perth boy was released from custody for Christmas despite a serious crime spree,the judge calling the unit he would go to a “barbaric dungeon”.
Detained children are attacking officers with make-shift blades,metal plates and planks of wood as frightening new details emerge about WA’s youth justice system.
The day before Cleveland is to be laid to rest in Meekatharra the state government announced a $1 million business case for a new facility would be completed before the May 2024 budget.
The mother of a teenager shown on Four Corners being hog-tied in a men’s prison fears for his safety as she watches him locked in a cycle of crime and self-harm.
The damning findings about Cleveland Dodd’s final conscious moments showed a punitive,counterproductive system,not a rehabilitative one,the opposition says.
The minister continued to praise prison staff on Tuesday after reports contradicting his early versions of events after Cleveland told guards of his intentions.
A 15-year-old detainee is tonight speaking out from inside the notorious Unit 18 youth wing at Casuarina Prison,where 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd recently took his own life.
Cleveland Dodd,16,died a week after attempting to take his own life inside a cell in Unit 18. Now an officer has been suspended pending further investigation.
Inspector of Custodial Services Eamon Ryan warned care needed to be improved for the other youth detainees in the unit at Perth’s maximum-security adult men’s prison.
We need respectable bedrooms for our neediest children,not grotesque stir-crazy jail cells,or we risk the next generation being even worse off than the current.