Inmates charged with family violence offences
Police have charged three detainees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre for contravening family violence orders while on remand in the past month.
Police have charged three detainees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre for contravening family violence orders while on remand in the past month.
The detainee reported to have died at the Alexander Maconochie Centre on Sunday is believed to have been held in a single cell, subject to hourly welfare checks by prison officers.
"The ACT government is, of course, acutely aware of these dire outcomes and obviously conscious of the fact that when it comes to locking up Aboriginal peoples, we Canberrans are in a class of our own," writes JON STANHOPE.
"The 'Healthy Prison Review' is damning. There is simply no other descriptor that reflects the extent of the failings identified in the management and operation of the AMC," writes JULIE TONGS.