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Details are scarce about the investigation into alleged conduct of Southern State Correctional superintendent Mike Lyon.

“These rates of overdose deaths will not change unless we change how we are responding to them,” said state Sen. Tanya Vyhovskyl, P/D-Chittenden Central. “Continuing to do the same thing that we have done while expecting a different result is not only ridiculous, it is cruel.”

The department announced a new three-year contract with the company Wellpath after its contract with VitalCore Health Strategies expires at the end of June. The state previously contracted with Wellpath when it operated under the name Correct Care Solutions.

Labor’s reconciliation envoy has called out inaction from the Albanese government, demanding immediate steps to address Indigenous deaths in custody.

The cover-ups began immediately following Veronica Nelson’s death and continued for years after, even while the coronial inquest into her passing was under way.

This egregious deception calls into question Victoria’s system of reviewing deaths in custody. It shouldn’t fall to grieving families to investigate

The inquest outlined in horrifying detail the chain of neglectful and cruel events that led to the death in custody of 37-year-old Aboriginal woman Veronica Nelson.

More than three years since she died, alone on the concrete floor of a cell, Veronica Nelsons death was fo...

Victoria’s bail laws are an "unmitigated disaster” according to a coroner who has handed down findings into the death of Veronica Nelson. 

On the first day of the coronial inquest into the Indigenous woman’s death in custody, Dame Phyllis Frost Centre general manager Tracy Jones warned staff about “sensationalised” scrutiny, and urged her colleagues “to not take it personally”.