From the (2/11/14) article: Mark Payne, 28, was a minor offender on remand, facing charges like breach of bail and a count of property damage. Depressed and suicidal, he was admitted to a hospital with a forensic health unit in May 2011, but after just seven days he was discharged straight into prison to await trial. ‘They said he was well enough and he needed to go and face his responsibilities,’ says his mother, Pam. Mr Payne had never been to prison before. He told police, doctors, and his lawyer that if he went to prison he would kill himself. He said the same thing to the guard who transported him to Yatala Labour Prison, Jim Richardson, who was working for security firm G4S. ‘I didn’t see him as the average sort of person that I’d dealt with over the nine years at the company,’ says Mr Richardson. ‘He was very compliant and very easy to get along with no problems whatsoever.’ ‘When we got back to Yatala I took his paperwork in [and] told the officers there that he had told his lawyer that he had expressed the desire to kill himself if he was returned. Their response was that yeah they knew he was suicidal and he was already on suicide watch.’ Although he was on remand, Mr Payne was put in Yatala’s notorious G Division—maximum security isolation cells where the lights are on 24 hours. After five days he was allowed to ring home. He left a brief message on his family’s answering machine: ‘Mum or dad, you there? It’s just me. I was hoping you’d be home.’ That was the last call he made. ... Continued at: abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/2014-11-02/5847612
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:07:30 +0000
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