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Youth justice in WA is at crisis point.

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.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

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Cleveland Dodd.

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.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Cleveland Dodd, 16, (inset) died after self-harming in his cell at the youth Unit 18 wing of Perth’s maximum-security Casuarina Prison.

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”.

  • Aaron Bunch
Paramedics arrived on scene soon after and rushed the boy to hospital, but he has passed away a week later.

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”.

  • Emma Young
The violence inside Unit 18 has been revealed.

‘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. 

  • Michael Genovese
Corrective Services minister Paul Papalia.

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.

  • Hamish Hastie
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Vision from inside Banksia Hill Detention Centre where officers use a technique known as ‘folding up’ to restrain a detainee shocked viewers.

‘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.

  • Hamish Hastie
Shadow Minister for Police and Corrective Services Peter Collier speaks about the new findings.

‘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.

  • Holly Thompson
Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia was questions about the death of Cleveland Dodd in parliament on Tuesday.

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.

  • Hamish Hastie
Casuarina Prison, Western Australia.

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.

  • Mia Egerton-Warburton

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