Incarceration
Serco to run new women’s prison in Queensland
Overcapacity in Queensland’s prisons are at record high rates. To address the issue, the Queensland government has commissioned private service......
Indigenous offenders in poetry and music workshops
The Red Room Company brings their Unlocked prison poetry program to indigenous offenders. Poet Lionel Fogarty and musician Joe Geia......
Victorian Government Reaching Out to Youth Offenders
A Victorian task force will speak to every Aboriginal youth in the state’s juvenile centres to create law reform. Fifty-three......
Lawyers Release Sweeping Study of Indigenous Deaths in Custody
Despite a Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody over 25 years ago, numbers have only increased across all states......
Age of responsibility should be 14 not 10
Throughout Australia’s criminal jurisdictions, the age at which a person can be locked up as the result of a crime......
Demands for Koori Courts
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in New South Wales are calling for specialised Koori Courts to reduce the over-incarceration......
Use of sedative during physical restraint of a prisoner is potentially fatal
Medical experts have warned against the use of the common tranquilliser midazolam on suspects in custody after the deaths of......
Terrorist incarcerated, justice suspended
Prisoners may soon face extended sentences in NSW under newly proposed terrorism laws that will asses the individual’s potential to......