'Appalled': Dodson calls for overhaul after seeing images of shackled prisoner

By Patrick Begley
Updated December 4 2017 - 5:43pm, first published 5:33pm
Photograph shows Anthony James Whittaker, photographed at the Newtown Mission Church today. Mr Whittaker has been visiting the community church since his son Erik was found dead in Parklea jail in July. Photograph by Dean Sewell. SMH News. Taken Monday 27th November 2017
Photograph shows Anthony James Whittaker, photographed at the Newtown Mission Church today. Mr Whittaker has been visiting the community church since his son Erik was found dead in Parklea jail in July. Photograph by Dean Sewell. SMH News. Taken Monday 27th November 2017

Senator Pat Dodson has called on state governments to create new laws to protect prisoners, saying he was "absolutely appalled" at the shackling of an Indigenous inmate on his death bed in Sydney.

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