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NT Corrections disputes prisoner safety concerns during Benjamin Watts inquest over fatal buggy crash
NT Corrections has used the final day of a coronial inquest to refute an allegation that prisoner care and supervision was inadequate at the time one of its inmates died in a vehicle crash
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Benjamin Watts died in an off-road buggy crash on prison grounds last May
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An inquest into his death has heard supervision of prisoners in one area was “inadequate”
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Helmets and seatbelts have since become mandatory for users of vehicles at the prison
Benjamin Watts, 31, died in May last year after crashing his off-road buggy while working in the horticultural section of the prison.
A two-day inquest examined safety procedures in place at Darwin’s adult prison at the time.
Mr Watts died in the last half hour of his final shift inside the prison…
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