Short Profiles (Youth)

“No Justice – No Peace”

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Jessica Adam
An inquest jury returned a narrative verdict saying that “Jessica was concerned about a number of matters” and concluded that “she took her own life while the balance of her mind was disturbed but she did not intend to die.”Jessica Adam was the fifth of ten women to die a self-inflicted death at HMP New Hall since the beginning of 2002.
INQUEST press release (pdf file)

Katherine Woods & Tracy Logan
Two young women hanged themselves in HMP Risley only days into sentences for non-violent offences. Tracy Logan, a 24-year-old drug dependent, took her own life on 24th August 1997, alone in a cell, days into a one-year sentence for theft. She was alone in her cell and hung herself from an upturned bed. Her death mirrored that of Katherine Woods in the same prison, who was also drug dependent, almost one year previously.
INQUEST press release (pdf file)

Kelly Hutchinson
22-year-old Kelly Hutchinson was found hanging in her cell. She was serving a five month sentence for theft. Her death came just days after a jury at the inquest into another death at HMP New Hall.
INQUEST press release (pdf file)

Louise Giles
At the conclusion of the inquest into the death of 20 year old Louise Giles at HMP Durham, the jury has returned a highly critical narrative verdict and have condemned Prison Service management.
Garden Court Chambers

Rebecca Turner
Rebecca, a mother of two young children, was found hanging in her cell on the Induction Wing at HMP Low Newton on 28 July 2004. She died within two days of arriving at the prison. Rebecca had a history of heroin use but at the time of being sentenced was on a methadone treatment programme.
INQUEST press release (pdf file)

US police handcuff five-year-old
A lawyer has threatened to sue police officers who handcuffed an allegedly uncontrollable five-year-old after she acted up at a Florida kindergarten.
BBC News

Youth (Male):

Aboriginal deaths in custody: “Were our people being purposely killed was the real question”
Today is the 19th anniversary of the tabling of the royal commission recommendations and, I believe, this article is indicative of seeing things with different eyes. white eyes and black eyes. Also academic eyes and non-academic eyes; of forests and trees perhaps.
Independent Media Centre Australia

David Henderson
David Henderson, 18, was discovered hanging from a sheet tied to his cell window at Brinsford Young Offenders Institution in the West Midlands on 17 March last year. He died five days later in Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital.
4WardEver Campaign (Word file)

Karl Lewis
Karl Lewis, an 18 year-old man, was found hanging in his cell at HM Young Offenders’ Institute Stoke Heath at approximately 1am on the morning of 22 January 2005. The inquest into his death began on Thursday 5 October 2006.
INQUEST press release (pdf file)

Focus (selected articles):

Why I still think the New Cross fire was a massacre (by Darcus Howe)
I have tried hard not to re-enter the New Cross fire issue, in which 13 black children were burnt to death at a birthday party in Deptford, south London, 18 years ago.
1981: Nine die in New Cross house fire >

Court of Appeal bans Government-backed child custody restraint methods
28th July 2008
Physical restraint methods on young people in custody introduced by the Government last year were abolished by the Court of Appeal today.

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“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”