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.