Cleveland Dodd, 16, died in hospital a week after officers discovered him unconscious in the youth wing of Perth’s Casuarina prison
Western Australia’s corrective services commissioner has been replaced after the death of an Indigenous teen who self-harmed in the youth wing at an adult prison.
It is yet to be filled and Reynolds remains a WA Department of Justice employee, the minister said on Wednesday. The appointment of the new commissioner comes as the Department of Justice confirms that a prison officer had been suspended from duty pending the outcome of an inquiry into Cleveland’s death.The teen’s death is being investigated by the Department of Justice and the coroner.
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