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Aaron Bunch

Youth justice in crisis before teen's death: coroner

A coroner says the youth justice system was in crisis at the time of Cleveland Dodd's death. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

Everything must be done to ensure another child doesn't die in youth detention, a coroner has told an inquest for an Indigenous teenager who fatally self-harmed while in custody.

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

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