Tag Archives: Death in custody

The family of a 30-year-old Aboriginal woman who died in custody issues a plea for answers, as a coronial inquest explores whether an opioid dose given by prison authorities could have played a role.

An emotional deputy State Coroner criticises the young detainee's guards, apologises to his parents and delivers recommendations she says she has no confidence will make any difference.

A woman has died in custody at a jail in north Queensland. The 44-year-old died at Townsville Women's Correctional Centre on Tuesday evening, Queensland Corrective Services said. "QCS is assisting local police who are investigating the circumstances of her death with the Corrective Services Investigations Unit,

A coronial inquest has heard there are still questions remaining about what happened prior to the death in custody of Wiradjuri, Kokatha and Wirangu man Wayne Fella Morrison in 2016.

The death of a 37-year-old man at Royal Adelaide Hospital on Thursday makes him the tenth Indigenous person to die in custody since March.

Queensland Corrective Services can confirm that a prisoner died overnight at Maryborough Correctional Centre. The 74-year-old man was found deceased

A door leading out to the prison’s exercise yard, which had been left open under local protocols for 10 years, was a key issue raised in a death in custody inquest after an inmate died by suicide.

A lead police investigator told the court circumstances around the 20-year-old Wiradjuri man’s death were “avoidable”, citing an unfenced wall, the gaps corrective officers left while escorting him and the medical treatment he received in hospital.

A West Australian tribunal has made a finding of professional misconduct against the doctor who treated Ms Dhu prior to her 2014 death in police custody.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she’s “deeply concerned” after an Indigenous man died at Cessnock Correctional Centre yesterday — the sixth across Australian prisons since March.