Darwin residential youth justice operator sues NT government for breach of contract
An Aboriginal-owned business behind a service housing children and teenagers on bail and in the youth justice system…
United Nations delegation warns of Australia’s treatment of prisoners, detainees and breach in human rights
A delegation of United Nations inspectors has delivered a scathing assessment of Australia’s treatment of prisoners and other…
Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979
Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody in four decades. New data from the…
Cleveland Dodd’s care in Unit 18 ‘inhumane’, coroner examining youth detention death finds
Western Australia’s first recorded death in youth detention was preventable and the notorious facility where he died should…
Ombudsman delivers youth offending warning to Victorian government in extraordinary intervention
Victoria’s prison watchdog has made an extraordinary intervention into Premier Jacinta Allan’s crime crackdown, warning it leads to…
Queensland prisons watchdog report lays bare state of separation rooms at youth detention centres
Queensland’s prisons watchdog claims separation rooms at youth detention centres are becoming “soiled with urine” because they lack…
Inside a children’s court, a magistrate hears of fearful victims and young people living with trauma
“I’m at my wit’s end,” the magistrate told the court. You could hear a pin drop as the…
NT to reinstate use of spit hoods in youth detention, eight years after royal commission sparked ban
The Northern Territory government has flagged it will reinstate the use of spit hoods on young people in youth…