This article originally appeared on The Age News website on 7 June 2018.

Link: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/teenager-held-in-solitary-confinement-sues-state-government-20180607-p4zk63.html

Excerpt:

A young Aboriginal man is suing the state government for placing him in solitary confinement in an adult prison for three months when he was 16 years old.

Wonyarna Edwards and two other teenagers were transferred to the Charlotte Unit of Port Phillip Prison in 2012 after a staff member was stabbed in the neck and injured when the inmates tried to escape from the Parkville youth detention centre.