Then and Now, Us and Them: A Historical Reflection on Deaths In and out of Custody

Part of a special issue on deaths in custody and detention. The writer, himself a prisoner in Victoria, Australia, since 1986, reflects on deaths in and out of custody. He charts the history of the founding of Australia as a prison settlement and of the jail at Port Arthur, Tasmania, which was the e...

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Main Author: Minogue, Craig W. J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2006
In: Social justice
Year: 2006, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 107-117
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Maximum security prisons
FIRST person narrative
Treatment of prisoners
Prisoners > Mortality
Prison violence
Prisoners
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Summary:Part of a special issue on deaths in custody and detention. The writer, himself a prisoner in Victoria, Australia, since 1986, reflects on deaths in and out of custody. He charts the history of the founding of Australia as a prison settlement and of the jail at Port Arthur, Tasmania, which was the epitome of the convict system. He discusses the death of 35 people in a mass shooting at the Port Arthur Prison Historical Site in 1996 and the death of a prisoner at Victoria's Barwon Prison while being “restrained” by prison staff. He illustrates the differential treatment of cases of death and suffering and considers what can be learned from these apparently disparate fatalities.
ISSN:2327-641X