New report says WA prisons are 'deadly and dangerous' for people with mental health issues

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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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Don’t be a criminal and you won’t be in prison. Simple process teally

You’re funny 😂

Everyone of them has a mental health issue - committing crime against society! Sorry you oxygen thieves aren’t victims!

No shit!

Crime is a social construct invented by white people Ban all prisons

I don’t think prisons are good for anyone’s health! 🙃

No shit Sherlock. ! Tell me something l didn’t know

WHY R WE SOOOOO 'UNSURPRISED'.

They should check Vic metro where 5M are locked down. Many more mental illnesses than WA prisons & growing.

Prisons are the new asylums for those who suffer from mental health problems. I'm sure AlisonXamon is well across this issue.

WA imprisons more people per capita than almost anywhere else on the planet. Most return to prison within a few years. Our political leaders refuse to tackle the problem

Unfortunately Mental Health is so underfunded so vulnerable people are jailed instead of cared for.

It's more dangerous outside when you have only two options - LNP or ALP

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