A warning: This story contains content some viewers may find distressing. It discusses incidents of self-harm and includes the name of an indigenous person who has died. The minister who approved the creation of a controversial youth detention unit within an adult prison in Perth has defended the decision after a coronial inquest was told it was based on "a series of grievous lies". The inquest is probing the death of an indigenous teenager who fatally self-harmed in his cell in the infamous unit 18 facility.
