it's something they see every day in they work with the national suicide prevention and trauma recovery project they said that he had suicided like hung himself and i couldn't believe that because he even get now to his own young women and was only going to restraining order. megan says coronal investigations into a death in custody can be a long arduous journey offering legal resolution or surely. no prison down a police officer has ever been convicted over an indigenous death in custody in a struggle. that is not right that is not fair that is not justice you need to know what's going on with your loved one what worries last lies like always last moments like was there some other acts of another course with all their loved ones. every week megan and gerry give psychosocial support to families caught up in the state's criminal justice system. they say it's a form of the system's missing in western australia is giles. saying we need to get this type of meeting in the natural. increase. has the kids was there. they have that i used 3 out of 4 people living below the poverty line since the 1st pe

meghan crocker is director of the national suicide prevention and trauma recovery project. naomi muffy is a community activist and kristi sharma is a senior research out with human rights watch. we also asked the government's national indigenous australians agency to join us, but they toned down our invitation bought. they did send a statement and i will be sharing that with you a little bit later on. ladies, thank you so much for being part of today's show make and there were just 2 numbers that are in my head right now. one is 10, that's the age of criminal responsibility l strain. the other one is 15 times more indigenous youngsters are incarcerated. what young says in australia? those 2 numbers are shock. what does that mean to family? and if we take it away from us and we talk about family, what does that mean? it means that it's broken families and we said it and we said it made subjected to racism, discrimination. marginalisation pretty clear that he whispered straight out, as mentioned in the other video here, we have a mother who juggles and discrimination is really

their organization the national suicide prevention and trauma recovery project is trying to change that with a new program that provides them with housing jobs or other assistance when they leave prison we get them to believe in themselves if you believe in them for long enough they'll start to believe in themselves it is not rocket science people need people. who don't do anything special. but the young people in prisons treat them like they're right and if you can seek you want to mike them better to get the medication if they're hungry if they've got a if they need to have a yeah a talk conversation because they're not feeling so i won't use plato. that's where that assertive outrage comes in apply that 247. with such high incarceration rates in western australia the demand for their services both inside and outside the prisons doesn't stop i can't tell you the last night i worked with a family where incarceration hasn't been put an issue. there's no hurry this night help is nice supports. and this is so problematic because until there is that psycho social supports more people are g

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