South Australia MLCs unanimously vote to ban spit hoods

Criminal Defence, prison, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, deaths in custody / By /

South Australia is on the way to becoming the first state to criminalise the use of spit hoods, five years on from the death of Wayne Fella Morrison. The Upper House unanimously passed the new laws, which have been a contributing factor to Indigenous deaths in custody. Wayne Fella Morrison died in the back of […]

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