00:00The Tasmania Prison Service says the woman died at the Royal Hobart Hospital on Monday.
00:07It says she was transferred from the Mary Hutchinson's women's prison to the hospital two days earlier after a serious medical episode.
00:15The prison service hasn't released any information about what kind of medical episode the woman suffered.
00:20She was being held at the prison on remand, meaning she had not been convicted of a crime.
00:26The woman's death has hit the community hard.
00:29The state's Aboriginal Legal Service believes it's the first Aboriginal death in custody in Tasmania since the 1990s.
00:37We've been calling for various supports across the justice system and the government have more work to do
00:43and this is a tragic outcome of a long-standing inaction from the Tasmanian government.
00:49Tasmania's Director of Prisons, Narelle Pamplin, has extended her condolences to the woman's family and friends.
00:56Her death will be investigated by the coroner, which is standard practice for deaths in custody.
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