Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 1994, as chairwoman of a federal parliamentary inquiry into the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody, Henzell attacked state governments for not using or inappropriately using $50 million in federal implementation funding, stating (in relation to New South Wales) that "two years down the ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up approximately 3.3% of the Australian population (798,365) in the 2016 Australian census. [17] As of June 2018, Indigenous Australians aged 18 years and over were approximately 2% of the total adult population, while Indigenous prisoners accounted for 28% of the adult prison population, [18] [19] meaning that Indigenous adults are 15 times ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Black Death in fiction" The following 4 pages are in this ...
Read our how-to on reporting on deaths in custody, and learn how to use our data to investigate your local jails. If you have information about a death in jail Send us a tip if you have more information about someone in our database or another death in custody between July 13, 2015 and July 13, 2016.
Colin Roach was a 21-year-old black British man who died as a result of a fatal gunshot wound having entered a police-station reception. [1] [2] A subsequent inquest ruled his death was suicide - him having placed the barrel of a shotgun in to his mouth before squeezing the trigger - inside the entrance of Stoke Newington police station, in the London Borough of Hackney, on 12 January 1983.
“Deaths from suicide in custody are as tragic as they are preventable, and the deaths of these two young people should not have happened whilst they were in the care of the state.” ...
Date: July 13, 2015 (): Time: c. 9:00 a.m. Location: Waller County Jail, Hempstead, Texas Coordinates (traffic stop) (Waller County Jail): Type: Death in custody: Cause: Ruled a suicide by asphyxiation: Outcome: Charge dropped against Brian Encinia as part of a plea agreement: Deaths: Sandra Annette Bland: Burial: Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens West Willow Springs, Illinois, U.S.: Inquiries ...
David Joseph Dungay Jr was a 26-year-old Aboriginal Australian man who died in New South Wales Corrective Services custody at the Long Bay Correctional Centre on 29 December 2015. His death in custody prompted a coronial inquest which found "systemic deficiencies in training" of corrective services personnel.