Published: August 29, 2018
Guardian Australia investigation finds that 56% were on remand, died while fleeing police or during arrest, or were in protective custody
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More than half of the Indigenous people who died in custody since 2008 had not been convicted of a crime.
A Guardian Australia investigation has found that while 44% of deaths in custody were of sentenced prisoners, 56% were people held after being charged with a crime, people who died in a police pursuit or during arrest, or people who died in protective custody.
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