Banksia Hill
Opinion
Detention centres
Why are we still locking up our children?
Another day, another kid found dead in a prison cell. It’s not the system that needs to change, it’s our thinking.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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WA Justice ‘incompetent and incapable’: Former Children’s Court judge
The retired judge slammed the department that oversees youth justice in WA, telling an inquest he had predicted the tragedy that came to pass last October.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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
Judge refuses to send 17-year-old to ‘horrendous’ Perth prison
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”.
- by Emma Young
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Prisons
‘Hell in a cell’: Violence inside WA’s Unit 18 youth prison revealed
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.
- by Michael Genovese
Unit 18 to remain open for years as Cleveland Dodd’s family prepare for his burial
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.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Juvenile justice
‘Folded up’ in Banksia Hill, then released with no support. Where to from here?
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.
- by Hamish Hastie
‘A train wreck’: Opposition slams Unit 18 report, calls for facility to close
The damning findings about Cleveland Dodd’s final conscious moments showed a punitive, counterproductive system, not a rehabilitative one, the opposition says.
- by Holly Thompson
Papalia defends support of Unit 18 guards after self-harm that led to death
The minister continued to praise prison staff on Tuesday after reports contradicting his early versions of events after Cleveland told guards of his intentions.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Prisons
Teen detainee reveals young WA prisoners left in three-point shackles for hours
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.
- by Mia Egerton-Warburton
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Perth
Unit 18 staff member suspended over teenager’s death in custody
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.
- by Holly Thompson
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