An acute failing of the healthcare needs of Aboriginal ... and Gunditjmara artist dies in Victorian prison Another man, serving time at Melbourne Assessment Prison (MAP), was punished with ...

An inmate at Melbourne Assessment Prison told his family “you need ... began on Monday and will focus on whether he received proper mental health care in the months leading up to his death.

The Victorian government has entered into a fresh agreement outsourcing health care in publicly run prisons ... woman before she died in a Melbourne prison cell in January 2020.

Another prisoner, at the Melbourne Assessment Prison, told the Ombudsman ... of significant prison healthcare reforms. “We take our duty of care to all people in custody seriously,” the ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s request to take over California’s prison health care system ... vision screening, and a risk assessment for chronic diseases. Women get pap and pelvic exams every ...

Andreea Lachsz is the Head of Policy, Communications and Strategy at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service. VALS is representing the family members of Ms Veronica Nelson, Ms Calgaret, and Michael ...

On any given day, more than 200,000 women are living behind prison or jail walls. Thousands of these women are pregnant and depend on correctional authorities for their health care, and correctional .

What we didn’t know as he entered prison was that navigating the maddening world of corrections health care might not be enough to keep him healthy, and that even a short prison term can easily ...