Prisons and correctional facilities are not meant to be pleasant for those sentenced to spend time there. But the difference between punishment and cruelty is clear — and judging by a series of revelations recently elicited at the WA Coroner’s Court, the State Government is closer to cruelty.
The inquest into the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd, who in October died by suicide at Unit 18, inside the maximum-security adult Casuarina Prison, has revealed stunning dysfunction inside Corrections that horrifies.
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