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Public attention directed to the issue of death in custody
has increased. ... Second, I will explain the
politically correct meaning of "Death in Custody". Third, I
will illustrate information and statistics on death in custody in Australia dating from 1992-93. Fourth, I will be
discussing death in prison and police custody in England dating from the periods of 1979 to 1989.
These facts that I will be discussing emphasize the full
implementation of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. This paper
hopes to provide and accomplish is a better understanding of
death in custody, and let the public be aware of what is going on in prisons around the world. ...
Death in Custody was chosen for this purpose by the Royal
Commission into Aboriginal Death in Custody. The Commission
stated that it include at least the following categories:
(1) The death wherever occurring of a person who
is in prison custody or police custody or
detention as a juvenile.
(2) The death wherever occurring of a person whose
death is caused or contributed to by traumatic
injuries, or by lack of proper care in such
custody or detention.
(3) The death wherever occurring of a person who dies
or is fatally injured in the process of police
officers attempting to detain that person.
(4) The death wherever occurring of a person who dies
or is fatally injured in the process of that
person escaping or attempting to escape from
prison custody or police custody or
juvenile detention. (Royal Commission into
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 1991, p. 190)
In Australia the incidence of death in custody has been
increasing. It is reported that out of 72 percent, 30 died in
custody and 42 percent died in police custody. ... Its most popular state, South Wales,
experienced more than half of the death in custody out of the 72
percent.(Death in Custody, 1994, p. 1)
Death rates may be resolute in terms of the ratio of the
number of deaths to the number of people in the community. To
start with the first of these approaches, it is observed that the 92-93 crude death rate for police and prison custody combined was 0. ... The adult
crude death rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait people in
prison was 2.50 per 100,000 of the population, whereas the rate
for non-Aboriginal death rate in custody was 0. ... 2)
Going to police custody death rates, the adult crude rate
for all types of police custody was 0. ... The Aboriginal death rate was 1.
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