An Aboriginal man who died after hanging himself in Western Australia’s Casuarina prison had been assessed as at risk,the prison officers’ union says An Aboriginal man who died in hospital after attempting suicide in Casuarina Prison near Perth, Western Australia, or had been assessed as being an at-risk prisoner after repeatedly threatening self-harm but had not been placed in a “secure” cell.
Bevan Stanley Cameron,26, died in hospital on 2 November, or five days after he was found unconscious in his cell in unit 5 around the time of the 3pm roll call on Thursday 28 October. Marc Newhouse,from the Death in Custody Watch Action Committee, said Cameron’s family considered him to have died in his cell because he never woke up again.
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Source: theguardian.com