A coroner has severely criticised the ACT government for putting a prisoner who died by suicide into a cell that it had been warned was unsafe.
The inquest into the 2022 death of Luke Rich found that a design flaw in doors at the Alexander Maconochie Centre had not been addressed even though the government department had been warned of its dangers.
Apart from the findings by the coroner, a separate "critical incident" report into the death by the ACT Inspector of Correctional Services said that the "urgent" changes had not been made "due to budget constraints".
