Over 1,000 Australians with cognitive disability are detained indefinitely each year. This shameful practice needs to stop
- Written by Eileen Baldry, Professor of Criminology, UNSW
ShutterstockThis week, the royal commission into the violence, abuse and neglect of people with disability will begin hold hearings on a shameful subject that has long been neglected: the indefinite detention of people with cognitive impairments and/or mental illness in our criminal justice systems.
Indefinite detention is what happens to...
