The Wire

Scott Simpson, committed suicide at age 36 in a segregation punishment cell at Long Bay prison. But according to some human rights organizations his death could have been prevented. The Deputy State Coroner tabled her findings this week from an inquest into the death of Mr. Simpson, and was critical of the way prison authorities deal with inmates who have a mental illness. After killing his inmate, a juvenile sex offender, Andrew Parfitt he was found not guilty because of his mental illness. As a psychiatric patient, Simpson waited for his removal to Ward D, the Psychiatric unit of Long Bay Prison, but no bed was available at the time. He died in June 2004.