Oceania
Oceania
Discipline
Facilities
Australia
In an effort to prevent the spread of radical Islamic ideology, Australia is to build a prison facility which will isolate militants from other inmates.
Source — The Independent
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Access to legal rights
Oceania
Discipline
Rehabilitation
Australia
The Melbourne barrister and human rights advocate Julian Burnside has warned politicians that tightening bail and parole laws at the expense of a right to justice and freedoms “is to hand victory to terrorists”.
His comments follow an announcement from the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, on Friday…
Source — The Guardian
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Oceania
Australia
The number of full-time prisoners in Australia has soared by nearly 40% over the past five years, driven by a huge increase in the number of unsentenced inmates.
Australian Bureau of Statistics data show there were an average of 40,577 people in full-time daily custody in the March quarter, up 6.8% over…
Source — The Guardian
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Oceania
Overcrowding
Violence
Australia
Staff at the state’s largest prison are meeting on Monday to address frustrations and fears over prisoner violence amid rapidly increasing overcrowding.
Source — Brisbane Times
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Minors
Oceania
Mental health
Australia
Children detained in an adult prison in Victoria were deprived of their human rights and faced risks to their mental health, a supreme court judge has found.
Source — The Guardian
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Oceania
Torture
Violence
Australia
The former chief of Victoria’s youth jail schooling system claims the State Government misled the public over the use of Barwon adult maximum security prison to jail young offenders — who he says are being treated in a manner he equates to “torture”.
Source — ABC News
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Oceania
Facilities
Australia
With NSW prisons bursting at the seams, the state government will “rapid-build” a 400-inmate high-security jail at the Wellington Correctional Centre, with the facility to open later this year.
Source — The Australian
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Oceania
Overcrowding
Australia
A union has placed inmates in all South Australian prisons in lockdown over what it says is a failing by the Corrections Department to address overcrowding concerns.
Source — News
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Oceania
Australia
Legal bodies have welcomed news that the federal government will implement the optional protocol of an international anti-torture treaty by the end of the year.
The Australian government will invite outside scrutiny of the conditions and practices in its detention facilities and prisons, following an…
Source — Lawyers Weekly
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Oceania
Torture
Australia
Independent inspections at youth prisons or immigration detention centres will be permitted after the Turnbull government pledged to ratify a United Nations treaty in a bid to stamp out torture.
Source — The Sydney Morning Herald
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Oceania
Australia
The number of assaults in overcrowded NSW prisons has soared by 37 per cent in the past two years, as the prison population reaches a record high.
Source — The Sydney Morning Herald
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Oceania
Australia
Police are investigating what a union official has described as a “serious” incident at Canberra’s jail, which left at least one prison guard injured.
Few details have been released about the incident, but it is believed the guard was hurt by a detainee at the Alexander Maconochie Centre on January 15.
Source — ABC News
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Oceania
Australia
Almost one prison guard a week has been sacked or has quit before they were forced out as part of a crackdown on corruption and serious misconduct inside WA jails.
Figures provided by the Department of Corrective Services show 25 guards lost their jobs in the first six months of this financial year.…
Source — The West Australian
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Oceania
Australia
Guard hit repeatedly on head as disturbance breaks out after an argument in New South Wales jail
Source — The Guardian
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Women
Oceania
Facilities
Australia
The first inmates have moved into WA’s new women’s jail, where the private operators are being offered cash incentives by the Government to ensure prisoners are rehabilitated.
In an Australian first, the company Sodexo will get bonus payments for ensuring inmates at Melaleuca prison do not reoffend.
If…
Source — ABC
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Australia : detaining high-risk terrorism offenders after jail term ends 'violates human rights'
News
Access to legal rights
Oceania
Justice
Australia
Australian human rights groups say proposed law effectively extends a prisoner’s sentence without the benefit of a trial.
Australian human rights groups have raised concerns over a proposed government bill that would allow for the continued detention of “high-risk terrorist” offenders at the end of their…
Source — The Guardian
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Oceania
Australia
Do we want our prisons to produce people who learn from their mistakes and who have bettered themselves, or people further damaged by punishment?
The practice of art and the notion of restorative justice and therapeutic jurisprudence in attending to the offending behaviour of convicted criminals is something…
Source — The Guardian
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