Cleveland Dodd
Indigenous rights advocates gathered in the Boorloo/Perth CBD on Monday to demand the closure of Unit 18 youth detention centre, which the WA Coroner described as "dangerous" in the inquest into the d...
The mother of Cleveland Dodd — the first young person in WA to die in youth detention — says Premier Roger Cook supports shutting down Unit 18.
Coroner Philip Urquhart has called for a "special inquiry" into how the notorious Unit 18 facility originally came into operation, among his 19 recommendations arising from the inquest into the death...
Leaders in Western Australia are urging the state government to act on Coroner Philip Urquhart's call to immediately close the notorious Unit 18, following the release of his findings into the death o...
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised the following story contains the name of a person who has died. The mother of Cleveland Dodd — the first child recorded to die...
WA's troubled Unit 18 youth detention centre is dangerous and should be closed "as a matter of urgency", warned Coroner Philip Urquhart Monday as he released findings of the coronial inquest into the...
The image of Cleveland Dodd — a smiling, 16-year-old Yamatji boy who died in custody — is etched into the national consciousness.
Nadene Dodd says she won't leave Perth after the findings on the death of her son are handed down on Monday until she looks WA Premier Roger Cook in the eye and tells him Cleveland did not need to die...
The notorious youth detention facility where Yamatji boy Cleveland Dodd fatally self-harmed after being held in "inhumane" conditions is set to be replaced.
"Cleveland Dodd didn't die because he ran out of chances - he died because the world refused to give him one," says WA youth-justice advocate Gerry Georgatos, author of the soon-to-be-released Clevela...
A coroner hearing an inquest for Cleveland Dodd, who fatally self-harmed in a youth detention, says he might recommend another inquiry into the facility.
Zoo animals are treated better than an Indigenous teenager held in a cell for 22 hours a day in a troubled wing of an adult prison without water before he fatally self-harmed, his outraged family says...
An Indigenous teenager who fatally self-harmed in the troubled youth wing of an adult prison was subjected to "barbarous and criminal" neglect, his mother says.