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Aaron Bunch

Guards watching movies when teen self-harmed in custody

Cleveland Dodd, 16, died in hospital after self-harming in youth detention. (HANDOUT/SUPPLIED)

Prison staff were watching movies and a senior officer was partially undressed and relaxing in his office when an Indigenous teenager fatally self-harmed in youth detention.

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 October 12, after he twice contacted them through the intercom and threatened to hurt himself.

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