Casuarina Prison
A young Aboriginal man being held in Western Australia's Casuarina Prison has died in custody. The 29-year-old man was found unresponsive in his prison cell on Monday morning.
The heartbroken mother of an Indigenous teen who fatally self-harmed in youth detention says her son was locked in an inhumane, filthy concrete box as she calls for those responsible to be held to acc...
The mother of an Indigenous teen who fatally self-harmed in youth detention is expected to address an inquest into his death ahead of the coroner releasing his provisional recommendations.
An Aboriginal man has died in custody at Western Australia's Casuarina Prison. The 46-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell overnight, officials said on Wednesday.
The lawyer for one of the highest-ranking officials in Western Australia's department of corrective services has made an application for the coroner in the inquest into the death of Cleveland Dodd to...
Organisations have continued to criticise the Western Australian government's handling of youth justice in the state in the wake of the second child to die in custody in a year.
WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm and contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died. The former superintendent of the juvenile detention centre in which Cleveland...
An Indigenous teenage boy was held in "inhumane" solitary confinement for more than 22 hours per pay before he fatally self-harmed. Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive inside a cell in the youth win...
Western Australia's justice department told "blatant and grievous" lies about a trouble-plagued youth detention facility before transferring children to it, an inquest has been told.
A former justice department boss has admitted youth detainees under his watch were subject to abuse. The revelation came during an inquest into the first recorded West Australian juvenile death in a d...
A former justice department boss has told an inquest into the first juvenile to die in West Australian custody the teen's death was a preventable failure and apologised to his family.
The justice department needs urgent reform so it can better address the needs of young offenders, the prison watchdog has told an inquest for the first youth to die in West Australian custody.
Each youth in detention costs taxpayers about $1 million a year, a former prison watchdog has told an inquest while calling for a shake-up of a youth justice system at "crisis point".