Juvenile justice
Public transport tops pre-COVID levels as election train builds steam
The Miles Labor government has hailed the first month of its 50¢ flat fare trial as a vote of confidence with just seven weeks to the statewide poll.
- by Matt Dennien
Latest
Top WA official hires lawyer following Cleveland Dodd inquest revelations
A West Australian deputy corrections commissioner has hired a lawyer following damning evidence at the inquest for an Indigenous boy who fatally self-harmed in custody.
- by Aaron Bunch
Analysis
Government
Labor’s latest retreat on youth justice is a sign of a broader problem
For the second time, the government has folded under pressure on crime and an inability to sell its message. This is more than a political problem.
- by Matt Dennien
Footy fans and pub goers to be scanned for knives under Qld crime plan
The expansion of arbitrary police metal detection searches form part of the Miles government’s latest effort to address community and political pressure on crime.
- by Matt Dennien
Perspective
Government
We all lose under Queensland’s winner-takes-all political games
Practice makes perfect, as the saying goes. And there are few less-practised areas in Queensland politics than collaboration, as the youth justice blow-up shows.
- by Matt Dennien
Kids jailed in Unit 18 denied medication if they were violent, inquest told
Medication was withheld from detainees if they assaulted staff, an inquest into the death of Cleveland Dodd has been told.
- by Aaron Bunch
Unit 18 probationary guard given two hours’ notice before filling senior role, inquest told
The guard said a senior officer sat with her and showed her how to fill in a series of reports before leaving her to oversee detainees and staff for the night shift.
- by Aaron Bunch
Why Unit 18 guards watched movies while on the job
A Unit 18 prison guard has told the coroner’s inquest into the death of Cleveland Dodd it was common for staff to watch movies and other programs while working the night shift.
- by Aaron Bunch
Cleveland Dodd inquest: Youth wing in high-security prison ‘set up to fail’
The corrections worker who found Cleveland Dodd after he self-harmed says the prison unit where the incident happened “was set up to fail”.
- by Aaron Bunch
‘I’m through’: Cleveland Dodd’s final day at Unit 18 laid bare as inquest begins
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.
- by Jesinta Burton
Cleveland’s mum shares her memories – and her heartbreak – as inquest begins
Nadene Dodd and her young family should be at home in Laverton. Instead, they are 950 kilometres away in a motel in Perth’s east, hoping they will finally get answers.
- by Jesinta Burton
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