#Latest news with #KarenGaryThe Guardian10 hours agoThe GuardianPrison authorities know there are hanging points in cells. Prisoners keep using themKaren and Gary's son, Luke Rich, died in an ACT prison one day after he was remanded in custody when he hung himself from a hanging point on a door in his cell. He was 27 years old. Prison authorities had been warned that point could be used for that exact purpose seven years earlier. Guardian Australia investigative reporters Chris Knaus and Ariel Bogle looked into 248 hanging deaths in every prison system in the country over more than two decades, finding at least 57 Australians were able to kill themselves using hanging points that prison authorities knew about but failed to remove
The Guardian10 hours agoThe GuardianPrison authorities know there are hanging points in cells. Prisoners keep using themKaren and Gary's son, Luke Rich, died in an ACT prison one day after he was remanded in custody when he hung himself from a hanging point on a door in his cell. He was 27 years old. Prison authorities had been warned that point could be used for that exact purpose seven years earlier. Guardian Australia investigative reporters Chris Knaus and Ariel Bogle looked into 248 hanging deaths in every prison system in the country over more than two decades, finding at least 57 Australians were able to kill themselves using hanging points that prison authorities knew about but failed to remove