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Introduction - Drugs and Prisoner Health |
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The New South Wales Corrections Health Service (CHS) estimates that about 80% of prisoners have been imprisoned for offences related to legal or illegal drug use or committed whilst under their influence.
Drug Use in Prison
Justice Action raises concerns about improper medication and treatments when these arise. Justice Action also supports calls for the use of non-custodial methods of punishment for drug users and the decriminalisation of drugs. In conjunction with the Victorian based Peoples' Justice Alliance, Justice Action successfully had the International Conference on Penal Abolition (1997) resolve that illegal drugs should be decriminalised.
Further, the national conference made similar resolutions. In Justice Action's submissions to the Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service, it was argued that drug law reform would remove the incentive to the endemic police corruption that exists and should be recommended. Further, Justice Action endorsed submissions on this issue by other organisations to the Royal Commission.
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Coroner Calls for Clean Jail Syringes |
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By Rosemary Desmond
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21085820-1702,00.html
January 19, 2007 07:15pm
Article from: AAP
CLEAN syringes should be available to Queensland prisoners, given the inability of Corrective Services to keep drugs out of the system, the state coroner says.
Speaking during an inquest into the death of a prisoner by overdose, Michael Barnes noted that the inmate also had hepatitis C, and the availability of clean syringes would at least help to control the spread of viral diseases.
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