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Australia: Aboriginal teen dies by suicide in Perth youth prison

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A 17-year-old Aboriginal teenager has died by suicide at a youth prison in WA .

The boy was found unresponsive in his cell on Thursday and could not be revived.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the most disproportionately incarcerated people on the planet and die in custody at far higher rates than non-Indigenous Australians .

Deaths in juvenile detention centres, however, are rare, and this is the second in WA in a year .

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