Lack of mental health resources and basic facilities leaving inmates and workers traumatised, party member and daughter of state MP says
Queensland
“Workers are seeing extreme self-harm, [people] ripping their tendons out, self-cannibalisation, [people] slitting their own throats,” she said. “In Queensland, there is not the infrastructure in jails to house prisoners with significant mental health problems,” Saunders said.and nearly a quarter are on psychiatric medication.
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