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Aaron Bunch

'Cruel and inhumane': teen's solitary cell before death

An inquest has been told Casuarina Prison's Unit 18 was established with little planning. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

An Indigenous teenage boy was held in "inhumane" solitary confinement for more than 22 hours per pay before he fatally self-harmed.

Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive inside a cell in the youth wing of a high-security adult prison in the early hours of October 12, 2023.

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