Kia ora koutou, The information from Trudy Bray, i have found to be informative, and offer tautoko to her for putting the Indiginous Australian perspective into this email group. The plight of Indiginous Australians is terrible, one of the worst cases in the western world and as fellow native peoples, i believe we should be doing our best to give them as much backing as possible. It is all to often that "Western" civilisation has come in and stolen land from people, now they appropriate culture and symbolism, will the stealing never cease. Kia Kaha Trudy Na Evangelene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trudy Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "news-clip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 1:05 PM Subject: -[Tino Rangatiratanga]- AAP: Fifth death in custody sparks fresh royal commission calls > Fifth death in custody sparks fresh royal commission > calls > By AAP's SELINA DAY > 06jun00 > > A WATCHDOG group into deaths in custody > yesterday renewed calls for a royal commission > into the causes of prison deaths in Western > Australia, following the fifth death in four > weeks in the state's jails. > > A 27 year-old man who had begun serving a long sentence was found hanging in > his prison cell yesterday, the fourth death in custody in the past two weeks. > > The man, a maximum-security prisoner, was found dead shortly before 3am > (WST) in his cell at Casuarina Prison, a Ministry of Justice spokesman said. > > He was last seen alive shortly after 9pm on Sunday when a nurse gave his > cellmate some medication. > > The justice ministry spokesman would not reveal the nature of the crime or crimes > for which the man had been convicted. > > "Obviously being maximum-security and a long sentence it was for serious crime, > but that's all we can really say," the spokesman said. > > The prisoner's name was not released at the request of his family. > > "A full coronial inquiry will be held to determine the cause and circumstances of > death," the spokesman said, > > The man is the fifth to die in WA jails since May 7, and the third to lose his life at > Casuarina in that time. > > On May 7, a 32 year-old man was found hanging in his cell at the > maximum-security jail. Two weeks later, on May 22, a 30 year-old man collapsed > and died in a workshop of the prison. > > On May 23, a 27 year-old man was found hanging in his cell at Albany Regional > Prison, and just three days after that an inmate of the Eastern Goldfields Regional > Prison collapsed and died while playing football. > > WA's Deaths in Custody Watch Committee renewed its calls for a royal > commission into the causes of prison deaths in the state following the latest > death. > > Executive officer Kath Mallott said Casuarina had become a place of maximum risk > for inmates since new security measures were put in place after a riot there on > Christmas Day, 1998. > > During the riot, which began when a number of prisoners managed to gain access > to a trolley carrying medicines, two prison officers and two prisoners were injured. > > Ms Mallott the security upgrade that resulted included the construction of high > fences around each unit within the prison, allowing little or no interaction between > prisoners from different units. > > And she said interaction between staff and inmates inside each unit had > decreased. > > "Each unit has essentially become a prison within a prison, with a lunchtime > lock-down still being imposed on all prisoners," Ms Mallott said in a statement. > > "But the lock-down does not occur at any other maximum-security jail in WA." > > The general attitude within the jail appeared to be one of fear and loathing on > both sides, she said. > > Ms Mallott said the committee wanted the ombudsman to reveal the findings of a > February 1998 probe into the causes of WA prison deaths, which had been due to > report to parliament in September that year but which was still outstanding. > > > ************************************************************************* > This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without > permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, > scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal > copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of > the copyright owner, except for "fair use." > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Old school buds here: > http://click.egroups.com/1/4057/3/_/20596/_/960267433/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _________________________________________________ > Subscribe to the Tino Rangatiratanga eGroup > http://aotearoa.wellington.net.nz/subsc/ > _________________________________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." 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