Another death in custody in WA jail

West Australian authorities are investigating a death in custody at a prison in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, 600km east of Perth.

The Department of Justice issued a statement on Tuesday that a 31-year-old Aboriginal man had been found unresponsive in his cell at Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison on Wednesday afternoon.

“Staff provided first-aid to the prisoner until paramedics arrived,” a department spokesperson said in a statement.

The man was taken by ambulance to Kalgoorlie Hospital, where he was declared dead.

Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison.

“Preliminary reports indicate there were no suspicious circumstances,” the spokesperson said.

The death is the 14th in custody in Australia this year and the fourth to involve an Indigenous prisoner.

Almost 600 Indigenous people have died in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody presented its final report in 1991.