’Deaths in our backyard’: 432 Indigenous Australians have died in custody since 1991 | Australia news | The Guardian
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In 2018, Guardian Australia analysed all Aboriginal deaths in custody reported via coronial findings, official statements and other means since 2008. We updated that analysis in 2019, and found that government failures to follow their own procedures and provide appropriate medical care to Indigenous people in custody were major causes of the rising rates of Indigenous people dying in jail.
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The proportion of Indigenous deaths where medical care was required but not given increased from 35.4% to 38.6%.
The proportion of Indigenous deaths where not all procedures were followed in the events leading up to the death increased from 38.8% to 41.2%.
The proportion of Indigenous deaths involving mental health or cognitive impairment increased from 40.7% to 42.8%.
The proportion of deaths attributed to a medical episode following restraint increased from 4.9% of all deaths in the 2018 analysis to 6.5% with new data in 2019.
Indigenous women were still less likely to have received all appropriate medical care prior to their death, and authorities were less likely to have followed all their own procedures in cases where an Indigenous woman died in custody.
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