Rehabilitation
Fiji has broken ground on a new National Rehabilitation Centre in Tamavua as the country moves to expand care for people recovering from stroke, amputation, injury and other disabling conditions.
Traditional Owners are concerned the site of Western Australia's Argyle diamond mine will be returned to them by Rio Tinto without the company meeting agreed rehabilitation criteria.
A new deal has ensured extensive rehabilitation at the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory will continue, with the aim that the site be returned to Mirrar Traditional Owners in a condition s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Western Australia's prison system has "prolonged shortages" of non-custodial staff in the areas of health, mental health, rehabilitation, and reintegration which have caused delays in health assessmen...
For more than a decade I have worked in prisons, courts, and communities across Queensland. I have seen firsthand the cycle of incarceration that grips our people.
The Law Society of South Australia has warned that new proposed laws in the state could drive up the number of children going to prison. The Law Society recently entered its submission to the SA gover...
Australia's over-reliance on imprisonment is failing children and communities, with sky high rates of re-imprisonment. While new figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, released o...
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons are advised that this article contains the name of a deceased personA new report into South Australia's only children's prison, Kurlana Tapa, sho...
Eligible organisations can now apply for grants under the federal government's new Reconnection, Employment and Learning (REAL) Program, aimed at helping to Close the Gap.
