Mindy Sotiri
New bail laws in the Northern Territory are set to be introduced and passed on Wednesday, with parliament reconvening for an urgent session in the wake of the fatal stabbing of a shop owner last week.
Justice experts have lashed New South Wales Premier Chris Minns over his reaction to the rising number of children in custody, labelling it a "devastating lack of commitment to the National Agreement...
The rate of Indigenous incarceration has risen nationally, new data from the Productivity Commission has revealed. The latest data, which has coincided with several jurisdictions introducing laws whic...
27 Indigenous children attempted self-harm in prison in the last financial year, new data has revealed. Furthermore, Australia is spending more than a billion dollars on imprisoning children, with 460...
The Justice Reform Initiative warns Queensland's 'Making Qld Safer Bill' will fail to reduce crime, will fail to improve community safety, and will cause enormous harm to Queensland children.
The Northern Territory government's decision to increase the prison capacity of the Territory by 1,000 has been criticised as an "expensive short-term response" which will only exacerbate disadvantage...
The Northern Territory government has announced they will introduce legislation next week to criminalise breaches of bail for children as well as expanding the presumption against bail to include yout...
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service has commended the Tasmanian government's decision to abandon construction plans for a prison in the north of the state.
Organisations have continued to criticise the Western Australian government's handling of youth justice in the state in the wake of the second child to die in custody in a year.
Northern Territory's Chief Minister-elect Lia Finocchiaro says tougher penalties for people convicted of crimes are needed. It comes as Ms Finocchiaro, whose CLP won a landslide victory over Labor on...
The Tasmanian government must take urgent action to address the overuse of rolling lockdowns and isolation in the state's prison systems, a human rights organisation has said, in the wake of a scathin...
The fall out into revelations a First Nations 17-year-old was struck with a baton by police at the Richlands watch house in Brisbane have continued to reverberate, with police behaviour being explicit...
The Queensland opposition has been criticised for pledging to sentence many youth criminals as adults, with human rights and advocacy arguing it would only make the community less safe.