A prisoner who caused more than $26,000 worth of damage to Canberra's jail was "pretty much out of control" when he destroyed and damaged items that included CCTV cameras, a magistrate has said.
Chaka Freeman, an Indigenous man, was upset after he was not allowed to attend a NAIDOC commemoration at the Alexander Maconochie Centre in November 2020 because of a previous incident of property damage near his cell.
At about midday, Freeman refused to return to his cell for lunch before correctional officers left him in the exercise yard where he was "pacing around, making rude gestures and flashing [his] backside".
