Corrections is in damage control mode over a racist incident inside Canberra's human right prison

By Peter Brewer
Updated March 12 2020 - 8:06pm, first published 1:00pm
A game of "hangman" played on a whiteboard by prison staff, and inset, the joint statement. Picture: Supplied
A game of "hangman" played on a whiteboard by prison staff, and inset, the joint statement. Picture: Supplied

Aboriginal rights advocates have strongly condemned ACT Corrective Services for attempting to minimise a racist attack by prison staff on an Indigenous prisoner in Canberra's human rights jail.

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