A coroner expresses alarm over the conditions of prison cells where a teenager died after self-harming, calling them 'unliveable, disgusting and inhumane'. The 16-year-old had made multiple threats to self-harm and requests for medical treatment before his death.
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The 16-year-old had made eight threats to self-harm and numerous requests for medical treatment in the hours before he was discovered and taken to hospital.A coroner has expressed alarm over the "unliveable, disgusting and inhumane" cells in a prison wing where a teenager died after self-harming.
"Unliveable, disgusting and inhumane, just three descriptions of the conditions of cells at Unit 18 by 2023," he said. Urquhart also noted evidence about the lack of staff training and junior staff filling senior roles, along with the extensive use of confinement that resulted in some detainees spending more than 20 hours per day in their cells."It was day in, day out and on some of the evidence week in and week out."
Cleveland Dodd's family outside of the inquest on Friday. Hearings into his death will now resume in July. "We have so much more to look at and I will do my very best to find answers." The inquest has heard night shift staff ignored those requests because a senior officer had informed them Cleveland had been given six cups of water with his dinner and his cell was not to be unlocked.
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