About 340 Indigenous people have died in prisons and police cells since the 1991 royal commission report. Critics say the lack of progress is 'mind-blowing' Carol Roe's house overlooks a cemetery. From her door she can see across the road to the grave where her granddaughter, known for cultural reasons only as Ms Dhu, is buried. Dhu has been there for 20 months. "Sometimes I lay in my bed after I put all the grannies [grandchildren] to sleep and think, 'Why am I here?'" Roe told Guardian Austral...
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remains
The Guardian - 15 Apr 2016 05:53
About 340 Indigenous people have died in prisons and police cells since the 1991 royal commission report. Critics say the lack of progress is 'mind-blowing' Carol Roe's house overlooks a cemetery. From her door she can see across the road to the grave where her granddaughter, known for cultural reasons only as Ms Dhu, is buried. Dhu has been there for 20 months. "Sometimes I lay in my bed after I put all the grannies [grandchildren] to sleep and think, 'Why am I here?'" Roe told Guardian Austral...
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