The inquest will examine Golightly’s transfer from Parkville youth detention to the DPFC, the conditions of detention, health and support services, and any lockdowns or measures that may have affected her wellbeing.

Seven potential avenues of inquiry will cover Golightly’s pre-remand circumstances, remand conditions, bail status, treatment at Parkville, the transfer to DPFC, DPFC treatment and lockdowns, and the circumstances of her death.

Medical staff attempted to revive her, but she was pronounced dead just after 10 am, and police later found handwritten suicidal notes in her cell.

Golightly walked to the outdoor exercise yard with a laundry bag concealing a bedsheet, and her body remained in the yard until discovery at 9:41 am, about two hours after she left her cell at 7:46 am.

The coroner and court will probe the two-hour delay before discovery, despite CCTV and fellow prisoners’ alarms, and whether staff responses contributed to her death.

A workplace investigation at the prison is underway, with the inquest relying on CCTV footage showing Golightly’s movements and the discovery of her body.

There have been at least 13 prisoner deaths in Victorian prisons in the past year, with none previously recorded at the women’s DPFC facility.

Tarsha Golightly, an 18-year-old mother, died by suicide in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre yard in Melbourne, five days after being moved from Parkville youth detention to a women’s prison.

Golightly died at Melbourne’s Dame Phyllis Frost Centre on July 27, five days after arriving at the adult prison.

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The death is set against a backdrop of other custody deaths at the same facility and ongoing scrutiny of prison practices and Victoria’s bail laws.

The inquest will examine how she moved from her cell to the yard, why she wasn’t discovered sooner, and the transfer from youth justice to an adult prison, including mental health or risk information shared between facilities.