Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign Yarn - Audio
Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign Yarn - Audio
We were lucky enough to have a discussion with a campaigner from the Aboriginal Disability Justice campaign chat to some of our supporters in Melbourne as part of the Indigenous Legal Conference in Melbourne.
The Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign (ADJC) is a national campaign addressing the incarceration of people with cognitive impairments in jails and psychiatric institutions as a result of being found unfit to plead or mentally impaired.
A significant number of Aboriginal people with cognitive impairment are currently being held in maximum security prisons, despite not having been convicted or sentenced for a crime that would require them to be held in such a facility.
To find out more about the campaign and how to help download the audio from the event.
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For more about the work of the campaign watch the following:
Uploaded by KnierimBrothers on 2015-04-23.
Marlon Noble lives the life of a guilty man. He was accused of sex crimes, and despite no trial and no conviction, spent 10 years behind bars. Marlon was released last year, but he is on strict conditions and is under permanent watch.
Please sign the petition to help Rosie Anne Fulton http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/roseanne-is-facing-a-lifetime-in-prison-because-of-her-disability-stop-the-neglect An Aboriginal woman born brain-damaged with fetal alcohol syndrome is stuck in limbo in a West Australian prison after the Northern Territory government reneged on a promised offer of a place in a special care home.
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