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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Christopher Knaus and Ariel Bogle

Patrick Dodson condemns decades of inaction on suicide hanging points in Australian prisons

Patrick Dodson
Patrick Dodson: ‘They’ve been told 30 years ago to get rid of these things.’ Photograph: Fairfax Media

The former Labor senator and Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commissioner Patrick Dodson has condemned inaction on known hanging points as “totally unacceptable” and joined calls for national leadership on justice reform.

Guardian Australia revealed last week that 57 Australians had died using hanging points that prison authorities knew about but failed to remove, often despite their use in repeated suicides and explicit warnings from coroners.

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