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| Poor cell monitoring in SA prisons blamed for inmate Mark Payne's jail death |
| By abc.net.au- James Hancock |
| Published: 06/11/2015 |
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A depressed inmate's suicide while in custody at an Adelaide jail has led to a scathing assessment of prison authorities by the South Australian coroner. Mark William Payne, 28, died in Yatala jail in 2011, a death coroner Mark Johns said was preventable. The coroner blamed an "inadequate and flawed" camera monitoring system for the man's death in custody. The inquest heard the minor offender was supposed to be under constant camera surveillance in Yatala's G-division, but vision only appeared on screen in a control room for five minutes of each half hour. Read More. |
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