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The Latest Breaking News from Dame Phyllis Frost Centre

‘Complete, unmitigated disaster’: inquest into Veronica Nelson’s death urges overhaul of ‘discriminatory’ Victorian bail laws

Coroner refers prison health contractor to Director of Public Prosecutions over death in custody

The Guardian - AU · Jan 30, 2023

Veronica Nelson was a kind woman. An inquest heard she died an 'appallingly undignified' death in prison

A five-week coronial inquest has heard about multiple missed opportunities that may have saved the life of the kind and loving Aboriginal woman before she died in a Melbourne prison cell in January 2020.

ABC News · May 27, 2022

Ill woman needed closer monitoring: nurse

A psychiatric nurse has told a coronial inquest Yorta Yorta woman Veronica Nelson should have been more closely monitored in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

AAP · May 6, 2022

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Canadian prisoner attacked by convicted terrorist now in legal fight with Victorian government

A Canadian woman serving a sentence in a Melbourne jail has launched a lawsuit against the Victorian government over a 2020 attack by another inmate, alleging prison officials failed to supervise her attacker.

ABC News · May 5, 2022

Victoria's strict bail laws may have factored into Veronica Nelson's bid for freedom being denied

A coronial inquest will examine the role tightening bail laws in the wake of the Bourke Street tragedy may have played in Veronica Nelson's treatment by authorities in the lead-up to her death.

ABC News · Apr 27, 2022

Coronial inquest into Veronica Nelson's death hears how she called for help in her final hours

A coronial inquest is examining why the 37-year-old died alone in a locked cell despite showing increasing signs of distress in the hours before her death. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains images of a person who has died.

ABC News · Apr 26, 2022

Veronica Nelson made repeated calls for help before her death in custody, inquest hears

Melbourne coroner’s court hears audio of the 37-year-old Yorta Yorta woman screaming in pain in her prison cell

The Guardian - AU · Apr 26, 2022

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