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