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The troubled Banksia Hill youth detention centre is facing fresh scrutiny amid allegations a girl was sexually harassed by custodial officers. Detainees at Banksia Hill and Casuarina Prison’s Unit 18 youth facility claim they have been subjected to excessive use of force, ongoing lockdowns, forced…
Source — The Advocate
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The study by the Social Policy Centre, University of New South Wales, Griffith University and Epoque Consulting found the state government saved $148.7 million between 2016 and 2022 by diverting offenders out of prison and into supervised home detention.
Researchers found the government saved an es…
Source — In Daily
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Australia: Queensland judge to receive apology after department refused to detail confinement of boy
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The public servant in charge of Queensland’s youth detention system has apologised for a government department’s refusal to provide the children’s court with information related to the prolonged solitary confinement of a boy, 13, with developmental disorders.
The judgment, reported by Guardian Aust…
Source — The Guardian
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Australia
Prisons are ungodly beasts – hard to understand for the average incarcerated soul, impossible to comprehend for neurodiverse people, who don’t process the world as the majority do.
In my experience, people come out of prisons in worse condition than they went in.
This is most certainly true of 40-y…
Source — The Age
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Australia: Ageing prisoners
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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Natasha Ginnivan discusses the ageing prison population in Australia.
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Prior to the legislative changes that came into effect in January, Queensland had the most restrictive prisoner voting laws in the country, with inmates barred from participating in state or local government elections.
Now, prisoners serving sentences of less than three years will be given the powe…
Source — ABC
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Aboriginal people in prisons are going without soap, and children in out-of-home care are being refused contact with their families under “punitive” restrictions enforced due to Covid-19, a report released on Wednesday has said.
Aboriginal people are disproportionately affected by Covid-19 policy r…
Source — The Guardian
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Australia
The prison death of proud Indigenous man Jonathon Hogan is a bleak reminder of an ongoing and shameful Australian inequality, his heartbroken family says.
Mr Hogan died by suicide in February 2018 while incarcerated at the Junee prison in southern NSW.
He was 23 and had a history of drug abuse and…
Source — SBS News
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Australia
A number of people who have committed acts of terrorism were radicalised in prison. Examples include Richard Reid (the 2001 ‘shoe-bomber’), some individuals involved in the 2004 Madrid bombing, and the attackers who committed the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris in 2015. Studies of European and US j…
Source — The Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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Australia: 'urgent action' needed over high proportion of Indigenous women in prison, report says
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The number of Indigenous women in custody has been called “one of the most challenging human rights issues facing Australia”.
Research out today has shed new light on Indigenous women in the criminal justice system in New South Wales.
It found the number of women in NSW jails between March 2013 and…
Source — ABC News
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Women
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Violence
Australia
Violence against women is rarely out of the news in Australia. We are now ten years into the National Action Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women (2010-2022), but there is still a long way to go.
Our research shows this is particularly true for women who have been to prison. The considerable chall…
Source — The conversation
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Australia
A former inmate describes conditions inside the prison system as a “ticking time bomb”, with staff and prisoners under increasing stress
Source — ABC News
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December 25th can be a chaotic mix of cheer and stress, but above all, it is a time of year dedicated to family. While most celebrate with their loved ones, for those in prison, Christmas is a complicated matter.
“It has a bit more of an impact on the women,” said Superintendent Julie Steineuer fro…
Source — ABC
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NSW prison inmates who had been previously cured of Hepatitis C were being reinfected up to three times, the ice inquiry has heard.
Source — The Sydney Morning Herald
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Australia: juvenile prison guards strip searches cause mental health problems, former inmates claim
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Children as young as 10 years old are being routinely strip searched in juvenile detention in NSW with minimal or no contraband found, according to new data.
Source — ABC
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The Queensland government has agreed to support 33 recommendations from a scathing report that found the state’s prison system was rife with overcrowding and corruption.
Source — The Sydney Morning Herald
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