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. 1999 Fall;27(3):269-74, 210.
doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720x.1999.tb01461.x.

Death and dying in prison in Australia: national overview, 1980-1998

V Dalton  1
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Death and dying in prison in Australia: national overview, 1980-1998

V Dalton. J Law Med Ethics. 1999 Fall.

Abstract

Author discusses the role of the Australian Institute of Criminology in monitoring deaths in people in custody in Australian prisons on a national basis. She provides an overview of deaths in prison custody between 1980 and 1998, noting a shift in the cause of death of Indigenous prisoners from natural causes to self-infliction.

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