The tragic death in custody of Cleveland Dodd: ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here’ (Dante Alighieri, <i>Inferno</i> )

The 2023 death in custody of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd, an Aboriginal youth in solitary confinement on remand in the now notorious Unit 18 in Perth Western Australia, has renewed concerns about staggering rates of Indigenous incarceration, the extent of non-compliance with the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1988–91), and ‘unlawful’ solitary confinement practices (as determined by the WA Supreme Court).