"All medication required by a prisoner must first be verified though the prisoner's physician and approved and authorised by the department's medical staff," the statement said. Pat Dudgeon, a professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Western Australia and a national mental health commissioner, said it was "frightening" Ms Kickett's medi...

Aboriginal woman in prison 'made to go without medication for days'; A Perth Aboriginal woman sent to prison for unpaid fines says she was treated like a dangerous criminal and became very sick when she was made to go without blood pressure medication for three days