Australia's National
Prison Newspaper

Australia's National
Prison Newspaper

ISSUE NO. 17

December 2025

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Holiday Messages from Loved Ones on the Outside

Ike Curtis

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‘Overcrowded, Degraded and Infested with Cockroaches’: Inspection Finds Broome Prison Still Not Fit-For-Purpose

By Denham Sadler

A remote WA prison holding mostly First Nations people is “unfit for purpose”, with people sleeping on the floors and cockroach infestations.

Court Finds Victorian Prisons Are Not Providing Adequate ‘Open Air’

By Denham Sadler

A number of Victorian prisons may have to be renovated or rebuilt after the Supreme Court found that no “open air” was being provided to inmates in multiple units.

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QLD Moves to Restrict Voting Rights of People in Prison

By Denham Sadler

The Liberal Queensland government has announced plans to significantly minimise the rights to vote for people in prison.

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Cleveland’s Death Was Preventable, Predictable and Predicted: Coroner

By Denham Sadler

The death of a 16-year-old First Nations teenager in a notorious youth unit of an adult prison in Western Australia was preventable and predictable, and the result of “serious longstanding deficiencies in the system, a Coroner has found.

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