COVID Lockdown for Prisons
Image:Image: Shutterstock - DiffeR NSW prisons have been forced into a sharp lockdown after positive test…
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The Problem With Indigenous Health Care In Prisons
Three decades ago The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Report recommended additional funding for better…
Harmful Effects of Solitary Confinement on Young Offenders
Imagine being confined in a small dark room for days, weeks or even months. You have…
Introducing Breathless: the death of David Dungay Jr
The inquest into David Dungay’s death starts next week. This story starts in December 2015, when…
Accelerated Ageing of Australia’s Prisons
The Australian prison population is ageing at a much faster rate than that of the rest…
Education, Vocation and Prison Reformation
A recent joint study by criminologists from five Australian universities has revealed the effectiveness of vocational…
Eritrean Asylum Seekers Imprisoned in Israel
Earlier this week seven Eritreans seeking asylum in Israel had their petitions rejected and have been…
Privatisation of New South Wales Prison System
$3.8 billion is set to be poured into an expansion of the New South Wales prison…
Prison Rates in Australia
Data released last week from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows a drastic increase in the…
Prison radio
Prison radio - that is, radio stations run internally in prisons by inmates, has been met…
Incarcerated fathers learning how to be parents
At any given time in the NSW prison system, between 13 or 14,000 children will have…
Should prisons be privatised?
Just yesterday, the NSW Minister for Corrections, David Elliott announced that the Government would be putting…