The National Justice Project fights to ensure everyone receives effective and appropriate medical care, free of racial bias or discrimination, no matter where the care is provided.
Everyone deserves culturally safe and dignified healthcare, but unfortunately, that level of care is missing from our prisons and youth detention centres, where we continue to see an overrepresentation of First Nations people. We fight for our clients, those who have suffered horrendous treatment during incarceration and for the families who have lost loved ones in the system. We need your help to tackle this discrimination in our healthcare, as we fight for systemic change.
Sadly, Australia’s record on deaths in custody for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is a national shame, especially the many preventable deaths from substandard healthcare.
I admire the strength of our clients who entrust us to represent them at coronial inquests into the passing of their loved ones. Far too often these are deaths in custody due to the failings of prison healthcare, and I am empowered by our clients to continue to challenge the prison system’s discriminatory model of healthcare.
National Justice Project lawyer Rosaleen Jeffries
We work to uncover truths through coronial inquests, which are an opportunity to examine cause of death as well as the systemic decisions, processes, actions and mistakes that contributed to it. We support families during the incredibly tough journey as they advocate about prison facilities that are no longer fit for purpose and the centres that fail to provide culturally safe care.
With your support, we can continue to advocate for improved health conditions in prisons and youth detention as we highlight the critical need for reform. Your donation can help families secure justice and accountability. Please make a generous donation today to help our legal action and advocacy for health justice.
