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AUS coroner calls for free syringes
By The Australian
Published: 01/22/2007

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Heroin substitutes and clean syringes should be provided to prisoners to combat disease and corruption in jails, a coronial inquest into the overdose of a murderer has recommended.

Prisons Minister Judy Spence yesterday rejected the recommendation of Queensland Coroner Michael Barnes, who delivered his findings into the death in his cell from a heroin overdose of Darren Michael Fitzgerald on June 13, 2004. Read more.

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