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“He had his coronary heart set on being an Aboriginal artwork trainer. His coronary heart was for his son and for his artwork. He wished to get out of jail and dwell proper and do the best factor. Now he can’t do any of that.

“We are able to’t consider Clinton is lifeless. We don’t understand how we are going to face the following days.”

Austin’s household stated he was let down by police and the justice system.

His household is now mourning after he died in jail, one among greater than 500 First Nations folks to die in custody for the reason that 1991 royal fee.

Corrections Victoria confirmed Austin’s demise on Tuesday.

“The passing of any particular person in custody is a heartbreaking tragedy and everyone at Corrections Victoria sends their deepest condolences to the person’s household,” the division stated in an announcement.

“We recognise that every one passings in custody affect household, associates, victims and the broader Aboriginal neighborhood.”

The division stated it was supporting the household and that employees have been working intently with the Aboriginal Justice Caucus and the First Peoples’ Meeting of Victoria. The coroner will decide the reason for demise within the coming months.

An Aboriginal man died in Port Phillip Jail on August 11, hours after returning to the utmost safety facility from St Vincent’s Hospital, the place he had been handled after an incident in his cell.

Victorian Greens justice spokesman Dr Tim Learn stated one of the simplest ways to cut back Aboriginal deaths in custody was to cut back the variety of Aboriginal folks in custody.

“The Andrews Labor authorities has made it more durable for low-level offenders to get bail, so First Nations folks at the moment are 14 instances extra more likely to be jailed than the Victorian common,” he stated.

The fatalities come lower than three months after an inquest was held into the demise of Aboriginal girl Veronica Nelson on the girls’s jail in Ravenhall.

Throughout the inquest, the coroner was instructed that greater than 500 First Nations folks had died in custody for the reason that findings from the Royal Fee into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody have been handed down in 1991.

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