Coroner Philip Urquhart said the “harrowing” evidence he heard about Cleveland’s last days was some of the “saddest I have ...

Last week, a 17-year-old boy died by self-harm in his cell at Banksia Hill Detention Centre in Western Australia. This tragic event was the second death of a child within the state’s youth detention ...

A FIRE at Perth's maximum-security Casuarina Prison that caused about $60,000 damage has been put down to spontaneous combustion. A spokeswoman for the Fire and Emergency Services Authority said 11 ...

The mother of a teen who fatally self-harmed in a youth jail wants those responsible for her son's death named when a coroner ...

A 16-year-old Aboriginal youth, Cleveland Dodd, died on October 19 in Western Australia, after allegedly suffering fatal self-harm a week earlier while detained in Perth’s adult maximum-security ...

The WA government has committed $156 million for the construction of a new youth detention facility in Perth. The new facility will house high-risk youth detainees who are currently accommodated at ...

Terence Darrell Kelly was surrounded by some of the state’s worst criminals as he spent his first night on remand in one of the country’s most notorious jails. Terence Darrell Kelly, 36, arrived at ...

A riot erupted at a notorious juvenile detention centre that saw armed teenagers climb onto the roof of the building and ...

Last Thursday, a 16-year-old First Nations boy died after self-harming in pretrial detention in a West Australian prison. Even though he was under 18, the authorities held him at Unit 18 in Casuarina ...