Aboriginal prisoners in Western Australia held in sweltering hot cells infested with snakes
Aboriginal prisoners in regional Western Australia are being held in unbearably hot cells infested with snakes and mice.
A custodial inspection report has highlighted grave concerns about the heat risks at Roebourne prison, which last year sweltered through the hottest March day on record anywhere in the world when the temperature reached 48.1C.
But WA’s corrective services department has rejected a recommendation to install airconditioning in cells, listing ice machines among the existing “effective controls” and claiming prisoners from the region are used to the heat.
