"I hope this report will say to the Samoa Government it's time we moved on. Admit what happened to this human being, he wasn't supposed to be in jail, he committed no crime"
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Christine Wilson, the mother of Hans Dalton who was killed inside Tafaigata Prison has praised the Commission of Inquiry findings into the Police and the Tafa’igata Prison.
The Commission has highlighted a culture of corruption and abuse, with inmates including two New Zealanders, treated like animals.
Both men had mental illnesses and died in Tafai'gata Prison. The report has labelled the prison overcrowded and that prisoners are beaten, abused and fed from buckets.
Ms Wilson told TVNZ that for her "it looks like a very welcome light for the people particularly of Samoa".
Dalton was found dead in his cell on Boxing Day in 2012. He was upside down in a barrel of water after being badly beaten.
His family is suing the government for failing to care for him.
"I hope this report will say to the Samoa Government it's time we moved on. Admit what happened to this human being, he wasn't supposed to be in jail, he committed no crime."
In 2009 conditions in the prison were so bad 41 prisoners hijacked a bus hoping to drive to Parliament to beg the Prime Minister for help, but things did not improve.
Prison Chief Executive, Taitosaua Winterstein, says "just because they are in prison they do retain some rights so they are not in there as slaves or such".
Taito says whatever comes out of the report he will address. But at this stage he hasn't even seen a copy of the findings which have been in Government hands since April.
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