"He's never coming back" : people with disabilities dying in Western Australia's prisons /

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Author / Creator:Sharma, Kriti (Disability rights researcher), author.
Imprint:[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2020]
©2020
Description:1 online resource (iii, 57 pages) : color illustrations.
Language:English
Subject:Mentally ill prisoners -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Mentally ill prisoners -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Death.
Prisoners, Aboriginal Australian -- Mental health -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Prisoners, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Death.
Prisoners with disabilities -- Mental health services -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Mentally ill prisoners.
Western Australia.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12413671
Related Items:Print version: "He's never coming back" :people with disabilities dying in Western Australia's prisons.
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Varying Form of Title:People with disabilities dying in Western Australia's prisons
Other authors / contributors:Human Rights Watch (Organization), issuing body.
ISBN:9781623138561
1623138566
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:"September 2020"--Table of contents page.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 12, 2020)
Summary:"Nearly 30 years after a Royal Commission inquiry into Aboriginal deaths in custody, Western Australia's prisons remain damaging and too often deadly for people with disabilities, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. A Human Rights Watch analysis of deaths in those prisons between 2010 and 2020 found that about 60 percent of adult prisoners who died had a disability. Due to limited resources, mental health services in prisons are inadequate. 'He's Never Coming Back'--based on interviews with 40 people, including prisoners, family members, mental health professionals, lawyers, Aboriginal leaders, and disability rights advocates--examines emblematic cases of deaths in custody, revealing repeated failures by authorities to provide adequate and culturally competent mental health services in prisons in Western Australia."--Page 4 of cover.
Other form:Print version Sharma, Kriti. "He's never coming back" :people with disabilities dying in Western Australia's prisons. [New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2020]: 9781623138561

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