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Aaron Bunch

Coroner calls for urgent closure of troubled youth jail

Nadene Dodd said she thought her son was safe and would leave detention rehabilitated. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

The troubled youth wing of an adult prison where an Indigenous teenager fatally self-harmed should be closed "as a matter of urgency", a coroner has told a court.

More funding should be provided for training corrections staff and the prison watchdog's powers should be beefed up, with coroner Philip Urquhart also calling for the justice department to be stripped of its role overseeing young people.

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