RT Article
T1 Then and Now, Us and Them: A Historical Reflection on Deaths In and out of Custody
JF Social justice
VO 33
IS 4
SP 107
OP 117
A1 Minogue, Craig W. J.
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157023
AB 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.
K1 Maximum security prisons
K1 FIRST person narrative
K1 Treatment of prisoners
K1 Prisoners -- Mortality
K1 Prison violence
K1 Prisoners