Latest News Funding Approved for National Database on Deaths in Custody Working Together: A Proposal for De-escalation and Safe Restraint for Authorities with Coercive PowerNational Deaths in Custody Database Proposal9 News Reports: Sydney’s Black Lives Matter ProtestsNews Au Reports: Indigenous Women Die in CustodyDeath of Wayne Fella Morrison in CustodyTane Chatfield InquestDavid Dungay Jr Death in […]
The recent months of international protests and year-long campaigns have shown the issue of deaths in custody as not limited to Australia and its correctional services. Throughout the world there are endless cases of avoidable deaths in custody that need to be addressed. In the United States, many have been demanding answers for arrest-related deaths
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8th December 2020 Justice Action has recently gained support from the Australian Research and Development Commons to work with AustLII in creating a database dedicated to National Free Access Coronial Findings, Recommendations & Responses. This database was developed in response to the death of David Dungay within Sydney’s Long Bay gaol in 2015. David Dungay
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Death of Wayne Fella Morrison in CustodyDavid Dungay Jr Death in Custody InquestTane Chatfield InquestRate of Indigenous Death in Custody Continues to Rise
The Select Committee on the High Level of First Nations People in Custody and Oversight & Review of Deaths in Custody established an inquiry on June 17th 2020 into the overrepresentation of Indigenous Deaths In Custody. The New South Wales Parliament will focus on the operations and functions of the oversight bodies tasked with reviewing
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Australian police and correctional services have a duty of care to all prisoners. This duty of care must ensure the safety of all prisoners, by ensuring their physical and mental health needs are met in a swift and effective manner to prevent harm to the individual or others. Tragic and preventable deaths in custody show
Safe restraint is used to limit an individual’s movement in an appropriate manner, to regain control without posing an unnecessary risk of harm to those involved. There is an absence of clear guidelines which mandate the use of de-escalatory tactics and safe restraint techniques in adverse situations. The aim is to develop effective cooperation and
Our aim is to secure better outcomes for inmates by facilitating a collaborative process amongst key stakeholders, ensuring that inmate safety is emphasised. Clear and effective policies which mandate the use of safe restraint and de-escalation processes, are necessary to ensure further deaths in custody are prevented. De-escalation can be defined as a ‘reduction of
Human rights refer to the inherent rights and freedoms all human beings are entitled to. The international framework for such values is encompassed by the United Nations, which has drafted vital documents setting out the standards for Government Action to ensure fundamental rights and freedoms are upheld. The United Nations has identified that human rights