Advocates condemn ‘unconscionable’ denial of water beforeo mentally ill man’s death in Sydney prison

Guards at Silverwater deliberately turned off the water to Simon Cartwright’s cell to punish him and joked it was ‘entertaining’

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A former royal commissioner is dismayed at the “unconscionable” treatment of a mentally ill man who was deliberately denied water to his cell in the days before he died from a treatable illness that prison health staff inexplicably missed.

The treatment of Simon Cartwright, a man diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in Sydney’s Silverwater prison has drawn widespread condemnation from mental health experts and advocates.

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