Death In Custody
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.