Prisoners in police cells often have less access to healthcare and less chance of being visited by family and lawyers
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In winter this year, a young Aboriginal man with a history of self-harm who had been remanded in custody in Melbourne was told he would be moving cells.
But he was not shifted across the corridor or to another building nearby: he was driven 300km to the police cells in Wodonga.
