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NSW prison failing Closing the Gap obligations on Indigenous incarceration, audit finds
Agencies overseeing prisoners in New South Wales have failed to implement formal...
Dechlan Brennan 12 Mar 2026
New report: WA prisons' stark growth and limited program access undermines safety and rehabiliation
Western Australia's Inspector of Custodial Services has warned the massive incre...
Giovanni Torre 11 Nov 2025
Not even allowed to shower: NT Government under fire as watch house overcrowding reaches crisis point
Experts and advocates have issued urgent warnings over escalating overcrowding i...
Dechlan Brennan 17 Jul 2025
Calls to address “systemic failures” leading to Tasmanian children being held in adult prisons
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service has highlighted "systemic failures" detai...
Callan Morse 9 Jun 2025
Indigenous incarceration in NSW is at a record high
The number of Indigenous adults in NSW prisons is at an all-time high as domesti...
Neve Brissenden 14 Nov 2024
Moving female inmates from Central Australia to Darwin a violation of women’s rights, anti-prison organisation says

The decision to move female prisoners from Central Australia to Darwin without prior notice or consent has been criticised by a lived experience organisation.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 29, 2024
23-hour lockdowns, crowded cells, and staff shortages - protestors condemn conditions in Hakea Prison

Dozens of protestors gathered outside WA's Hakea Prison on Monday to raise concerns about conditions in the facility in the wake of a death in the prison last week.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 9, 2024
NSW prisons settle case over Indigenous inmate's death

A lawsuit brought against NSW prisons for alleged shortcomings that led to an Indigenous inmate's asthma attack death has been settled for a confidential sum and will not go to trial.

WA Coroner slams "unacceptable" standard of care received by Noongar man who died in custody

Handing down his findings in the inquest into the death of Alf Eades on Monday, WA Coroner Michael Jenkin was highly critical of the lack of supervision and care that Mr Eades received while in custod...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 1, 2024
Charles Darwin University partners with NT government on prison education and training program

The Northern Territory government has formalised funding for vocational education and training to be delivered in Territory prisons in the midst of controversy surrounding the NT prison system, with o...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 24, 2024
Women prisoners refusing medical treatment and family visits to avoid strip searches - new report

A Queensland Human Rights Commission report found women in prisons are not seeking medical treatment or having family visit in order to avoid "traumatic" and "completely ineffective" strip searches.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 20, 2023
"Our country's shame" Debbie Kilroy firmly criticises Australia's mass incarceration of children

Debbie Kilroy, a human rights lawyer, and renowned activist and member of Sisters Inside continues to criticise Australia's excessive focus on punishment and exclusion, labeling it as an attachment to...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jun 22, 2023
Coroner to probe death of Indigenous man who put on 117kg while in prison

A Victorian coroner is examining the quality of healthcare given to Indigenous Australian prisoners after a man died having gained more than 100 kilograms while in jail.

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Emily Woods (AAP) Feb 25, 2023
Victorian government to take responsibility for healthcare in women's prisons, ditching private contractors

Victoria will stop outsourcing health care for female prisoners to a private for-profit company, it was announced Friday morning. The government conceded it "hasn't always been the case" that the pris...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jan 20, 2023
'Preventable lapse in protocol' risks COVID-19 outbreak in NSW prisons

As COVID-19 enters prisons in New South Wales, justice advocates are calling for the release and increased support of Indigenous inmates. Currently, two prisons in the State have active cases of COVD-...

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NIT Aug 18, 2021
Locked out of the right to health

There is no worse discrimination than health inequality. Australia boasts about its double trillion-dollar domestic product economy. But when it comes to the health rights of its citizens, not everybo...

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