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Prison newspaper brings legal advice, yoga tips to the incarcerated
A newspaper for the incarcerated has been distributed to prisons across NSW, Victoria, the ACT and Tasmania, with hopes the other jurisdictions will follow suit.
- by Amber Schultz
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Indigenous
Police had a plan to help reduce Aboriginal incarceration. Then this happened ...
Prison numbers are going in the wrong direction for Aboriginal people. But NSW Police say they should not be held accountable for helping to bring them down.
- by Patrick Begley
WA Justice agency ‘lied’ about unit where teen died
Former Department of Justice director-general Adam Tomison conceded it was an “appalling state of affairs” for the agency to write letters containing “untruths”.
- by Aaron Bunch
‘I was now the guy hurting kids’: Ex-justice boss breaks down over kids abused in custody
Former Department of Justice director general Adam Tomison agreed it was cruel punishment and inhumane treatment. He also accepted it was institutional abuse of children that started in 2021.
- by Aaron Bunch
WA Justice ‘incompetent and incapable’: Former Children’s Court judge
The retired judge slammed the department that oversees youth justice in WA, telling an inquest he had predicted the tragedy that came to pass last October.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
New approach up north could combat WA’s youth crisis: former inspector
Indigenous teenager Cleveland Dodd fatally self-harmed in custody in Perth. Now the state’s former prisons inspector has told an inquiry something must change.
- by Aaron Bunch
Officer too traumatised for questioning at inquest into WA teen prison death
The senior officer in charge when an Indigenous teenager fatally self-harmed in custody has been excused from appearing at a high-profile inquest amid fears for his health.
- by Aaron Bunch
The NSW workers who should be searched for drugs
While prison visitors are now routinely scanned for drugs, guards may be the weak link in the system, the NSW inspector of Custodial Services says.
- by Christopher Harris
NSW Corrective Services employees are subject to intolerable behaviour
Jails aren’t pleasant places. But those who work in them and are forced to live in them should at least be safe from abuses of power.
- by The Herald's View
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Workplace safety
‘Do you like this position?’: The workplace rife with shocking sexual harassment
More than a dozen current and former Corrective Services workers, including guards, administrative assistants and senior managers from different prisons say they endured humiliating harassment and assault,
- by Jordan Baker
Lawyer charged with smuggling drug-filled balloons into Sydney prison
The solicitor allegedly concealed cocaine, methamphetamine, buprenorphine and tobacco inside six balloons.
- by Sally Rawsthorne