CORRECTIVE SERVICES — PRISONER TRANSPORT
HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [9.58 pm]: I rise to speak on what I thought were pretty horrifying reports that came out on Sunday about a young Aboriginal woman who in August last year was transported naked, while handcuffed and covered in her own menstrual blood, from Bandyup Women’s Prison to Graylands Hospital. This case raises so many issues. It serves to highlight the unacceptably high and growing rate of imprisonment of Aboriginal Western Australians, something that should concern every one of us.
