The widow of a Noongar man who died at a maximum security prison in Western Australia two years ago says “nothing has changed” for Aboriginal people, after a damning report revealed that more Indigenous people died in custody last year than any year since 1980.

The national deaths in custody report by the Australian Institute of Criminology, released on Wednesday, showed there were 113 deaths in custody recorded in 2024-2025, including 33 First Nations people.

It is the largest number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody since the first year of the national monitoring program in 1979-1980 and brings the total number of Indigenous deaths in custody since the 1991 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody to 600, as of 30 June this year. Of that figure, 397 h

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