The age of truth-telling’: Disabled Indigenous people urged to speak out

Celebrating his 10th “truly free” day of freedom since he was 16, Indigenous man Daryl Carr, 35, who has a mild intellectual disability, had a single message. “I don’t want to see the mob go through what I went through,” said Mr Carr, a Wiradjuri man who has spent most of his life behind bars. He was released from prison in late May after a NSW Supreme Court judge found that Mr Carr had been cruelly detained on a five-year extended supervision order for 11 years, sometimes for “minor breaches”.

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Topics:
Disability Royal Commission, Discrimination, Justice, violence, Abuse and Neglect

Author:
Julie Power

Source:
SMH

Date published:
Tue 9th Jun, 2020