Guardian Australia has spent months collecting and analysing available data for the landmark Deaths Inside project, a searchable database of indigenous deaths in custody from 2008 to 2018. The team explains why
Deaths Inside: search the database
Over the course of several months, a team at Guardian Australia built the Deaths Inside project, which collated all available data to build a definitive, searchable database cataloguing the 147 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who died in custody between 2008 and 2018. Many died from treatable medical conditions, and more than half had not been convicted of a crime. In response to the systemic failures exposed by this investigation, Aboriginal leaders have called for an immediate review of the “absolutely unacceptable” numbers of Indigenous deaths in custody, and are demanding Australia develop an independent system for monitoring them as a priority.
The project was speerheaded by Lorena Allam, the Guardian’s Indigenous affairs editor, in close collaboration with Nick Evershed, the data and interactives editor for Guardian Australia and Calla Wahlquist, one of Guardian Australia’s reporters.
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