A terminally ill women who died at Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre in 2016, was unable to see her family before she passed away because her parole application was delayed.
The state coroner’s inquiry into her death found she would have seen her family, but her parole application was unnecessarily deferred from the Parole Board to get a specialist opinion.
The inquiry found the application process is flawed and a spokesperson for Queensland Corrective Services says the coroner’s recommendations are being considered to make improvements.