A 19-year-old Aboriginal man has died after an incident at Acacia Prison in Western Australia, a little more than a month after another prisoner died at the same facility.
The man was found unresponsive in his cell at the Wooroloo jail, about an hour east of Perth, on Saturday.
“He’s a young man, this was his first stint in an adult prison. He should have been supported, face-to-face mental health support,” the National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project’s Megan Krakouer told SBS News. Acacia Prison is owned by the Department of Justice which outsources management of the prison to Serco.
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