Former inmate calls for intervention to stop spiralling WA prison conditions
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Former inmate calls for intervention to stop spiralling WA prison conditions

ABC  

Kelvin Whitwell said the news of his friend's death came without ceremony. Twenty-one per cent of staff said prisoners' access to in-prison health services was "unacceptable" — more than double the proportion in 2020. "Earlier this year … Minister Shorten stated that criminal people who had been in prison should not be receiving an NDIS package," Professor Baldry said. In April, the National Disability Insurance Scheme minister said the scheme could not be "the dumping ground for state justice systems to keep Australians safe from violent criminals". They refuted the federal government's claim to the UN in May that people in prison in Australia received "the same level of health care the general public would".

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