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Australia: prisons watchdog lashes WA government over Unit 18 death
Western Australia’s prisons watchdog believes the government failed a 16-year-old detainee who died last week after self-harming in his cell at the youth Unit 18 wing of maximum-security Casuarina Prison on October 12.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald (24/10/2023)