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Aborigine cooked to death in Australian prison van.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Western Australia's Attorney General is looking at whether the government can and should terminate a prison transport company's contract in the wake of a scathing coroner's report. The State Coroner Alastair Hope examined the death of an Aboriginal elder in the back of a prison van. Mr Ward was transported across Western Australia from the city of Laverton to Kalgoorlie, a mostly desert region know as Goldfields. Temperatures were recorded at 47º on the day. Although there was no airconditioning he was given 600ml of water to ease his suffering and ensure a comfortable 250 mile or 400 km journey. ![]() Elder Ward's family will sue - while the government consider criminal charges and dropping the contract next year. This alas is not the only recent case of appalling prisoner abuse, which despite the attempts by the Rudd regime in Australia to put brutal disregard for human rights and aboriginals behind, are still clearly present & most worryingly abuse of a racist nature is connected to the subcontracted firm in question. |
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