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national disability affairs reporter Elizabeth Wright and the Specialist Reporting Team's Celina Edmonds

Disability royal commission examines poor treatment and 'disgusting' conditions in criminal justice system

A woman who lives with muscular dystrophy thought prison guards were trying to kill her when she was repeatedly dropped while being transferred in and out of her wheelchair.

Giving evidence to the disability royal commission, Dianne Lyons said she spent a "terrifying" four years in a Brisbane prison, and was left "vulnerable" and "desperate".

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