Prison officers watched movies and relaxed as 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd fatally self-harmed, minister says
Paul Papalia says significant failures' were uncovered by internal investigation into death of youth detainee at Casuarina prison
Prison officers were watching movies and relaxing when an Indigenous teenager fatally self-harmed in a youth detention facility in Western Australia, the responsible minister says.
Officers discovered 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd unresponsive in a cell at the Unit 18 facility at Perth's Casuarina prison in the early hours of 12 October after he twice contacted them through the intercom.
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