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• Issue 2: Winter 2008 (PDF 708k)

Locked In, Locked Out

Issue 2: Winter 2008

As a medical professional on the front line Dr Peter Sharp from Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Services knows all too well the problems married to imprisonment.

Sharp's visits are part of a broader outreach program to correctional centres in NSW and the Canberra region. Winnunga has provided primary healthcare to Indigenous inmates for 18 years. [Primary healthcare includes health promotion, illness prevention, care of the sick, advocacy and community development (WHO 1978)].

'In general, among the whole prison population the main health problems are substance abuse and mental health disorders,' he tells me.

'Prisons don't have any great answer for substance abuse. That's a problem. What Winnunga does is provide an appropriate service for those Aboriginal people who are behind bars, and the way we do that is by having an Aboriginal health worker there, as a bridge between the patient and the doctor.'
Prison Surge

It's no secret Australia's prisons are bursting with inmates. Higher numbers of prosecutions have seen the States desperately searching for more prison space. More than 27,000 Australians are currently incarcerated and as ever, Indigenous people are over-represented.

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