The UN has twice called on Australia to dismantle its indefinite detention system for people with cognitive impairments and mental illness, which disproportionately affects Indigenous people. Indefinite detention is what happens to defendants in criminal cases when they are deemed unfit to stand trial.
Australia’s shameful detention of people with cognitive disability must stop
- 19th February, 2021
Eileen Baldry
UNSW News
Thursday 18th February, 2021