Summary
Sheldon Currie, an 18-year-old Aborigine, was found unconscious in his prison cell in Brisbane last month. Fellow inmates say he had been in agonising pain for days, but that guards ignored his repeated requests for help. Finally he was taken to hospital, where he died of suspected liver failure four days later.
Currie is one of four Aborigine men to have died in prison or police custody in Queensland over the past month. Meanwhile, the family of another Queensland native, Mulrunji Doomadgee, are still waiting for justice five years after he died of massive internal injuries following a struggle with a police officer, Chris Hurley. A fresh inquest has just opened into Doomadgee's death.See the full content of this document
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Deaths Show Justice System to Be Racist, Claim Aborigines
Aboriginal leaders say the cases demonstrate that little has changed since a royal commission into black deaths in custody 20 years ago - particularly in Queensland, which used to be known as Australia's "Deep...
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