Children held in a Qld watch house are receiving less than an hour of daily schooling each week day.

Kids in youth detention centres are receiving an average of just two to three hours of classes each week day. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Cleveland Dodd inquest ~ “detainees were sometimes 'chained' or restrained inside their cell for several hours.” 9news.com.au/national/cleve…

Mostly Indigenous pedestrians are dying violent deaths after being struck on Northern Territory roads. One in four drivers doesn’t stop to help. abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

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Officer Torrijos said he had instructions not to open Cleveland's cell to give him water he had asked for 12 times.

Coroner Urquhart said he believed the officer had done everything to help Cleveland +hoped he would continue working in child prisons abc.net.au/news/2024-04-0…

Humane treatment of children at Unit 18 “not possible”

Cleveland’s Family have travelled from across Western Australia for the coronial inquest.

His father, Wayne Gentle, has been watching via video link from Greenough Prison. abc.net.au/news/2024-04-0…

Before Cleveland self-harmed, he wrote a letter to his father Wayne Gentle, with the help of youth custodial officer Daniel Torrijos.

The sealed letter was not delivered to Mr Gentle until after the inquest started.
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

A damning review has found the NDIS Quality Safeguards Comm failed to close a program that put children with disabilities at risk of death despite reports from officials+families that it was using prohibited restraints, incl pinning children to the ground abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

Ms Bain told the inquest officers would often alert senior staff that they were unable to monitor at-risk detainees.

'There have been occasions that you can recall where a senior officer did nothing?' Coroner Philip Urquhart asked.

'That's correct,' abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

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Tomorrow Night, 5-7pm: Join the Lehman Center for American History for 'Who Would Believe A Prisoner?' History, Archives, and Incarceration in conversation with Michelle Daniel Jones and Elizabeth Nelson.

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