A new Human Rights Watch report finds prisons in Western Australia are 'deadly and dangerous' places for people with psycho-social disabilities. And Indigenous people are particularly at risk.
The grief is still raw for Connie Moses-Penny as she remembers her 19-year-old son Stanley, and particularly his love of painting.A new Human Rights Watch report on Aboriginal deaths in custody highlights a lack of mental health services
She claimed concerns raised by her and others about Stanley's condition in the week leading up to his death, were ignored."Because of their lack of duty of care, my brother was able to go and take his life in a storeroom." Since the beginning of 2020, there have been three suspected suicides in Western Australia's prisons.
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