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…
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…
Spit hoods return to the NT as chief minister sprays critics as ‘offender apologists’
The Royal Darwin Show usually makes headlines for its prize-winning pumpkins and scones, not setting the political agenda…
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…