OZschwitz gulag: Cries for help ignored when prisoner died, say inmates

A GROUP of inmates say corrective services officers ignored their pleas for help as a fellow prisoner suffered a heart attack and died during a six-hour journey between two jails.

Police are investigating the death of Mark Stephen Holcroft, 59, in August as he was being taken from Bathurst Correctional Centre to a prison farm near Tumbarumba.

Inmates in the van alleged Holcroft complained of chest pains and asked a duty nurse for his regular heart medication before leaving Bathurst, but it was not given to him.

The inmates also say prison officers did not stop the van or respond to their efforts to raise the alarm when Holcroft collapsed some time after a fuel stop at Cootamundra, during which they were not let out.

In a letter smuggled out of jail the inmates wrote: ''We started banging on the doors and screamed for help and continued banging all 50 minutes to Mannus [Correctional Centre].''

Neither Holcroft, who was in custody for breaching a community service order, nor the other inmates had water, food or a toilet break during the 400 kilometre journey and a request to turn on the air-conditioning was refused, they said.

Ray Jackson, of the Indigenous Social Justice Association, said: ''Prisoners who shared that journey … are traumatised by the manner of his death.''

Mr Jackson that Holcroft was not an Aborigine but his partner is.

The Greens MP Sylvia Hale said the death in custody raised concerns about the way prisoners were transported in NSW.

In June the West Australian Coroner Alastair Hope delivered a damning finding on the death of an Aboriginal elder in the back of a prison van during a 400 kilometre drive.

The NSW Corrective Services Minister, John Robertson, said he could not comment until an inquest had been held.

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OZschwitz gulag: Cries for help ignored when prisoner died, say inmates

OZschwitz gulag: Cries for help ignored when prisoner died, say inmates

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