SA Govt finally moves on 1991 recommendation to stop Aboriginal deaths in custody

SA Police officers will be forced to notify the state’s Aboriginal legal service every time an Indigenous person is detained in custody under regulations being proposed by the State Government – decades after it was recommended by the 1991 Australian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Mother concerned after prison officers refuse to talk on death

The mother of an indigenous man who died in custody in Adelaide has told an inquest she hasn’t seen video of her son’s altercation with prison officers because it’s “too painful to watch”.