Indigenous boy, 16, dies a week after being found unresponsive in WA’s Casuarina prison

Department says teenager died at Perth's Sir Charles Gairdner hospital shortly after 10pm on Thursday

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An Aboriginal teenager has died in a Perth hospital a week after being found unresponsive inside a maximum security prison that is holding more than a dozen young detainees.

Last Thursday the boy, 16, was found unresponsive in his cell at a youth detention unit within the Casuarina prison by staff in the early hours of the morning.

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