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Aaron Bunch

'Animals treated better' than Indigenous teen: family

Cleveland Dodd was subjected to institutional abuse and inhumane treatment, a coroner has heard. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

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.

Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive inside a cell in Unit 18, a youth wing of the high-security Casuarina Prison facility for adults in Perth, in the early hours of October 12, 2023.

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