Tane Chatfield’s family say police and corrections should not be allowed to ‘investigate their own’
The family of a young Aboriginal man who died in jail after two years on remand has called for independent investigations into Aboriginal deaths in custody, in order to end the “monstrous loophole” where police and corrections “investigate their own”.
“I’ve been through this prison system, the system that killed our boy, the system that needs to change,” Colin Chatfield said outside the New South Wales coroner’s court on the final day of the inquest into his 22-year-old son’s death in prison in 2017.
Continue reading…Tane Chatfield’s family say police and corrections should not be allowed to ‘investigate their own’The family of a young Aboriginal man who died in jail after two years on remand has called for independent investigations into Aboriginal deaths in custody, in order to end the “monstrous loophole” where police and corrections “investigate their own”.“I’ve been through this prison system, the system that killed our boy, the system that needs to change,” Colin Chatfield said outside the New South Wales coroner’s court on the final day of the inquest into his 22-year-old son’s death in prison in 2017. Continue reading…