Three female prisoners have died in the space of 10 days across England, in what campaigners have branded an “incredibly worrying” sign that deaths in the women’s jails are rising again. Read more
Aboriginal leaders have called for an immediate review of the “absolutely unacceptable” numbers of Indigenous deaths in custody and are demanding Australia develop an independent system for... Read more
26-year-old Aboriginal man David Dungay jnr died on December 29, 2015 after pleading for his life in the mental health wing of Sydney’s Long Bay jail. He suffered a cardiac arrest when he wa... Read more
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said three people died after being held in a police cell, and another five died after being held in a cell, becoming unwell and then being pr... Read more
For almost three years, the family of an Indigenous Australian man who died in a Sydney prison complex after being pinned down by correctional officers has waited for answers. Their wait wil... Read more
A Reading family will have to wait for more than two years for answers over how a man being held in police custody died. Leroy Junior Medford died on April 2, 2017, after being held in the c... Read more
A man died in police custody on 7 July after he was detained for ‘breaching the peace’. Greater Manchester Police arrived at Andre Moura’s property in Oldham at about 11.30pm on 6 July, foll... Read more
West Midlands Police paid £300,000 compensation to the family of a man who died in custody, it was publicly revealed today. Mikey Powell, 38, tragically died of asphyxiation while in custody... Read more
Events in Fulton over the weekend marked the anniversary of the death of Justine Damond, who in June 2017 was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer after calling 911 to report a po... Read more
Shocking video footage of the death in custody of an Indigenous Australian man has been aired in court for the first time, depicting five officers restraining a man who said 12 times that he... Read more
