Indigenous girl, 16, shackled to hospital bed after being allegedly dragged through her home by police in Perth
WA government has defended the practice of shackling people in hospital as ‘part of standard custodial management practices’
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The Western Australian justice department has defended its use of restraints after a 16-year-old Indigenous girl was shackled to a Perth hospital bed after she was taken into custody.
A photo shared by the family showed the teenager’s ankles bound in chains and locked to the underside of a hospital bed.
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