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Thirty years on, our people still die in custody. This is why
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Thirty years on, our people still die in custody. This is why
Warning: This article contains names and distressing details pertaining to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody.
By Karly Warner
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Thirty years ago on Thursday, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down 339 recommendations to stop our brothers, sisters, parents and children losing their lives in the care of the state.
Since then, very few of those recommendations have been meaningfully implemented. Meanwhile, more than 470 more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died gasping for breath on cold prison floors, slumped over in watch-houses, roasting in the back of paddy-wagons, impaled upon fences or drowned in rivers while running from police who they had good reason to fear. These wo
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Inquest findings into an Indigenous man who died in a Sydney jail has found the response to his medical emergency was confused, uncoordinated and unreasonably delayed .
Deputy state coroner Elizabeth Ryan handed down her findings on Thursday into the death of Nathan Reynolds of Anaiwan and Dunghutti heritage.
Ms Ryan said the delayed response to Mr Reynolds acute asthma attack deprived him of at least some chance of surviving . She has made a number of recommendations to prevent similar deaths.
The inquest also examined how First Nations people in Australian prisons were grossly over-represented, a fact first found in a 1991 Royal Commission Inquiry into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
The family of an Aboriginal man who died in custody of a suspected paracetamol overdose, are calling for prison inmates to be given the same medical treatment as members of the public.
Twenty-five-year-old Wonnarua man, Danny Whitton, died of multiple organ failure at the Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney on November 9, 2015, four days after he was transferred from his cell at the Junee Correctional Facility in central NSW.
At a coronial inquest into his death this week, his cellmate at the time –given the pseudonym, Mr C– gave evidence and said days before his death, Mr Whitton complained of vomiting, severe stomach pain and was passing blood in his urine.
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