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Aaron Bunch

'Disbelief' when teen found unresponsive in youth wing

A youth wing at adult prison Casuarina was "set up to fail", a corrections worker told an inquest. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

The corrections worker who found the first juvenile to die in youth detention in Western Australia did not initially understand what he was seeing as he peered through the boy's cell door.

Youth custodial officer Daniel Torrijos discovered Cleveland Dodd unresponsive inside his cell in the youth wing of a high-security adult prison in the early hours of October 12, 2023.

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