Disability advocates say the indefinite detention of an Aboriginal woman in a West Australian jail is not an isolated case.
The ABC’s Lateline program last night has revealed 23-year-old woman, who suffers from foetal alcohol syndrome, has spent the past 18 months in a Kalgoorlie jail without a conviction.
The Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign says there are up to 50 people, mostly Indigenous, in a similar position.
Read transcript or listen online (off-site)- Topics:
- Discrimination, Justice
- Author:
- Lindy Kerin
- Source:
- ABC Radio The World Today
- Date published:
- Thu 13th Mar, 2014