The call to ban spit hoods in Australian prisons has renewed following the campaign from the family of an Indigenous man who died in custody.
Wiradjuri, Kokatha and Wirangu man Wayne Fella Morrison was 29 years old when he died in Yatala Labour Prison in September 2016.
Morrison was involved in an altercation when prison guards restrained him. They placed him in a spit hood and then placed him face-down in the back of a prison transport van.
When they pulled him from the van, he was unconscious. He died at Royal Adelaide hospital two days later when his family had to turn off his life support.
The inquest into the death of Wayne Fella Morrison will sit again in an hour — where the Chief Executive of SA’s Department of Correctional Services will continue his evidence. An explainer of his evidence out this evening with @IndigenousXLtd.#JusticeForFellapic.twitter.com/cvN9lr22Ed
A coronial inquest into Morrison’s death heard that there was more than a two-minute delay before any guard attempted to resuscitate Mr Morrison. The inquest also heard that less than half the corrections officers present had up-to-date first aid certificates.
Mr Morrison’s family’s lawyer told the coronial inquest that after Mr Morrison was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, his mother and sister had to wait hours in the hospital car park before they were allowed to visit their dying son.
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