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Letters / Cries from voiceless to prevent further suicide


“Our family’s experience of the interaction between the mental health and the justice systems for our family member was as traumatic as the incident that led to them being held in custody,” says our lead letter this week.
WE write to echo concerns of racism in the Alexander Maconochie Centre prison expressed in Jon Stanhope’s column “The shameful politicians who don’t give a stuff” (CN March 4).
As Canberrans, we struggle to get a voice to be heard, but how do we alarm those who put this in the “way-too-hard basket”?
The case Mr Stanhope outlined was not an isolated incident of strip searching a female detainee in view of male detainees.  ....

Australian Capital Territory , Barry Peffer , Richard Johnston , Elizabeth Kikkert , Michael Moore , Robert Ardill , David Hannaford , Jon Stanhope , Ben Ponton , Vi Evans , Paul Costigan , Clinton White , Eric Hunter , Mark Parton , Canberra Community Council , Inspector Of Correctional Services , Mental Health , Alexander Maconochie Centre , Assembly Youth Mental Health , Cooleman Court , Crisis Support , Correctional Services , Disability Justice Strategy , Alexander Maconochie , Access Canberra , South Canberra Community Council ,