deaths in custody

3 min read 2022-10-13 22:49:35

Prison was a “death sentence” for those featured in INQUEST’s damning report

INQUEST has published a report revealing new data and sharing the harrowing stories of 22 Black and racially minoritised people whose deaths in

9 min read 2022-01-06 19:21:22

Michael Ferreira (1959-1978) At about 1:30am on Saturday 10th December [1978], six black youths were walking past the Astra Cinema in Stoke

1 min read 2021-10-28 20:31:42

Within seconds of being asked about what her son Seni was like as a child Aji begins to cry. Reaching for a box of tissues next to a meticulous

1 min read 2021-04-06 23:31:44

• According to a February 19 article from the Davis Vanguard, incarcerated individuals in the California Medical Facility are suffering from

4 min read 2021-03-30 14:15:07

In the 30 years since the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, we’ve lost 450 lives, while we’ve blissfully ignored the ways to

4 min read 2021-03-12 04:00:25

We’re up to 440 indigenous deaths in custody with zero convictions. However, the fact that these deaths are not being made public should also

8 min read 2021-02-13 07:15:27

The families who have lost loved ones in police custody in Prince George, British Columbia continue their quest for answers and justice. At the

4 min read 2021-02-10 14:30:14

A corrective services officer has been charged with manslaughter over the shooting death of a Wiradjuri man in custody. Bitterly, it’s the first

1 min read 2021-01-17 05:00:21

Yesterday evening officers from the Met’s infamous Territorial Support Group shut down a protest called in memory of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, a 24

3 min read 2020-09-25 22:22:48

This article discusses racist police violence and deaths in custody. As readers are doubtlessly aware: in the early hours of Friday morning a

4 min read 2020-07-16 05:00:04

The family of Tane Chatfield spoke at a recent rally, wanting answers about the death of their son in custody. Their fight for justice now takes them

3 min read 2020-06-15 19:02:17

Sometimes a snippet of a song becomes lodged in my brain for days, like the needle of an old record player stuck in a groove, playing the same bit

6 min read 2020-06-11 04:07:00

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets around the world in protests triggered by the brutal death of black American man George

6 min read 2020-05-30 16:00:00

Many of us have been following recent events in Minneapolis where a community is resisting police terror following the murder of George Floyd, with

5 min read 2020-05-20 01:28:39

• The Philadelphia Inquirer published the “Lockdown Diaries,” a set of writings from incarcerated people during Pennsylvania’s longest