Justice Reinvestment
Djarindjin Aboriginal Corporation has urged reform of the Broome Courthouse and broader Western Australian justice system, warning that unsafe court infrastructure, "chronic" underfunding of support s...
New data shows that in 2024-25, the ACT Government spent an estimated $36.2 million on detaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Alexander Maconochie Centre and the Bimberi Youth J...
The National Network of Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls has urged an end to over-incarceration after the death of a young Aboriginal woman in Bandyup Women's Prison in Western...
Indigenous organisations are backing a growing push for South Australia to adopt care-led alternatives to policing, arguing health, social and community services should respond first to many incidents...
Western Australia's Inspector of Custodial Services, Eamon Ryan, has slammed Broome Regional Prison as "unfit for purpose", noting "unacceptable conditions that fail to meet basic standards" at the fa...
Police and Citizens Youth Club (PCYC) and Kununurra Waringarri Aboriginal Corporation have extended a partnership supporting young people at risk in Kununurra.
Across Australia, Aboriginal children are being disappeared by the carceral state. They are transferred without notice. Moved in secret. Taken from their families, their Country, their lawyers, and th...
An Aboriginal-led youth program is making a big impact in Western Australia and could be a model for the whole country. The Old Ways, New Ways program (OWNW) is a voluntary program for young people at...
Australia's first National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People, Sue-Anne Hunter, has condemned the passage of new Victorian legislation which will allow ch...
Set deep in the Kimberley bushland, a cluster of new buildings and a tennis court have risen as an on-Country program for Aboriginal young people at risk of entering the justice system is taking shape...
2024 NAIDOC person of the year Muriel Bamblett has added her voice to the growing opposition to Victorian government plans to introduce severe prison sentences for children as young as 14.
The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) says it is "deeply disappointed and angered" by the Victorian government's proposed youth justice changes.
Western Australia's Inspector of Custodial Services has warned the massive increase in the state's prisoner population, understaffing and limited program access is undermining safety and security and...