OZschwitz gulag: Imprisonment can do a grave injustice to the intellectually impaired

After more than 10 years in prison without a conviction, a 29-year-old Aboriginal man with an intellectual disability will finally be released.

Marlon Noble was deemed unfit to stand trial for alleged sexual assault in 2001, and under Western Australia's laws on the criminal mentally impaired was imprisoned following an indefinite custody order.

Although he has never been convicted, Noble has spent most of his adult life in prison, including a period in maximum security after he wrongly pleaded guilty to an aggravated drug offence - the "drug" in question was later confirmed to be a Sudafed by an independent inquiry.

The reasons provided for Noble's imprisonment? The community needed to be protected and there was nowhere else for him to go. He would have been released from prison years ago if he had been tried and found guilty of the sexual assault offences. He was never tried and therefore never found guilty, and yet he still remained in prison.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/imprisonment-can-do-a-grave-injustice-to-the-intellectually-impaired-20111228-1pcso.html#ixzz1hsJjewac

OZschwitz gulag: Imprisonment can do a grave injustice to the intellectually impaired

OZschwitz gulag: Imprisonment can do a grave injustice to the intellectually impaired

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