Black Deaths In Custody

Police body cam played in court, showing the final moments Mr George was seen alive as he was led to a watch house cell. More than an hour later police checked on him and found his body.

John Pat's death at just 16 inside an outback police lock-up sparked national outrage and a royal commission. Forty years later, what is his legacy in his hometown?

An Indigenous teenager died in 2022 after an unmarked police car collided with a motorbike he was riding in Sydney's inner-south. 

The NT coroner says the prisoner was "let down on a number of different occasions by a number of different practitioners" in the lead-up to his death. 

The many similarities between the 1983 death of John Pat and that of Cleveland Dodd in October this year show how little has changed for Indigenous deaths in custody.

West Australian teen Cleveland Dodd has been laid to rest, but his family still have questions about the circumstances surrounding his death. Four decades earlier, the relatives of 16-year-old John Pat had similar concerns after the boy died in police custody. 

The family of Jeffrey Winmar have remembered the Indigenous father of one as "bright, happy and respectable". They want more answer on why he died days after he was arrested by police.

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Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia's decision to release an interim report into the death of Cleveland Dodd, revealing more details about his attempt to take his own life, was a 180-degree turn in his handling of the tragedy, writes Kathryn Diss.

Staff at the notorious Unit 18 juvenile wing inside Perth's Casuarina maximum-security adult prison were watching movies or resting the night 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive. WARNING: The story contains details of self-harm.

There were opportunities to save Cleveland Dodd before his death in youth detention. Yet the WA government failed to act, writes Keane Bourke. WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm and the image of an Indigenous person who has died.

Despite repeated warnings and multiple opportunities to intervene, prison authorities failed to prevent 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd's death and wasted critical minutes, the ABC can reveal. WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm.

The family of an Aboriginal man who died after an incident involving two security guards says new allegations of violence in the industry show lessons have not been learnt.

A complaint and investigation into the conduct of a lawyer engaged to assist Aboriginal woman Veronica Nelson has been closed, with no disciplinary action taken.

Steven Nixon-McKellar's mother and brother say the inquiry into the 27-year-old's death in custody is "being used as a forum for another issue".

A large rally has been held outside the Toowoomba courthouse to mark the beginning of a coronial inquest into the death in custody of an Indigenous man, who died following an altercation with police.

Steven Nixon-McKellar was 27 years old when he died following a police arrest in Toowoomba in 2021. A large crowd rallied outside the courthouse as the inquiry into his death began on Monday.

The family of Kevin Spratt is seeking "justice" after he was repeatedly tasered while unarmed and then wrongfully convicted, saying it ultimately led to his suicide. WARNING: This story features the name and image of a deceased Aboriginal person, used with the permission of his family.

Speaking outside court, Ashley Washington's sister said she wanted justice for her brother, who she described as the "sweetest person you could ever meet".

Coroner Philip Urquhart finds prison staff knew about Mr Blanket's "suicide plan" eight weeks before he died and should have acted differently. 

Ashley Washington suffered a cardiac arrest and died on December 13, 2020, after being tasered twice by police, then sedated by ambulance officers, during a confrontation in which a policeman and his dog were stabbed.

People charged with minor, non-violent offences will be spared remand and granted bail more easily under a swag of long-awaited bail reforms to be introduced to the Victorian parliament.

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An advocate says First Nations communities are angry and want their concerns taken more seriously following the death of a 41-year-old Aboriginal man who was found unresponsive in his cell at Albany Regional Prison.

The detainee was reportedly the subject of a game of 'hangman' drawn by staff when he was in Canberra's jail.