MEDIA RELEASE - September 13, 2011 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner addresses WA

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner addresses WA

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda will be delivering a public address about justice reinvestment in WA over a breakfast at the Atrium Theatrette on 19 September 2011.

MEDIA RELEASE - Response to Transportation Report

July 18 2011 - Deaths In Custody supports recommendations of The Deaths In Custody Watch Committee have today applauded the recommendations of the newly released Report of the Inquiry into Transportation of Detained Persons. The report is the result of extensive consultations with organizations, family members, departments and concerned individuals by the State Environment and Public Affairs Parliamentary Committee.

Its’ 20 recommendations provide a means of tackling the unacceptably high rates of Indigenous incarceration in Western Australia where an Aboriginal person is 25 times more likely to be imprisoned than a non-Aboriginal person. The report notes that this rate is continuing to rise...

Ward family calls for fines to be put to good use - Media Release

Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (WA) Inc.

MEDIA RELEASE — For Immediate Release – 6 July 2011

Ward family calls for fines to be put to good use

Inquiry into the Transportation of Detained Persons

MEDIA RELEASE
Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (WA) 
27 Moore St, East Perth, Western Australia 6004

Tel:  0415074602

Deaths in Custody Watch Committee calls major public rally and march

Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (WA) spokesperson, Marc Newhouse today announced that over a thousand concerned Western Australians are expected to attend a major public rally this Sunday, 11th July 2010.

Media Alert - Deaths in Custody Watch Committee calls public protest actions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, 1 July 2010

Deaths in Custody Watch Committee calls public protest actions

BUILD COMMUNITIES NOT PRISONS CAMPAIGN calls for an end to double-bunking

MEDIA RELEASE

BUILD COMMUNITIES NOT PRISONS CAMPAIGN
17th June 2010

Campaign calls for an end to double-bunking

Following the release of the Inspector for Custodial Services' Report into Hakea Prison,Build Communities Not Prisons Campaign spokesperson, Marc Newhouse called for animmediate end to double bunking.

16 March 2010 MEDIA ALERT - Justice delayed, is justice denied

On Wednesday March 17 at 12:30PM, family members and supporters of Mr Ward will gather on the steps of Parliament House to protest the inaction by the State Government, and the Department of Public Prosecutions following the death of Mr Ward in 2008.