Inspector’s Corner – October 2026
Including a report released into youth education in Tasmania, a review into transfer of children to adult prisons in VIC and more.
Each edition contains news articles and investigative pieces. These are topical stories that are usually about prisons and criminal justice.
We also summarise the latest criminal justice news around the country.

Including a report released into youth education in Tasmania, a review into transfer of children to adult prisons in VIC and more.
The condition, placed on Susan Neill Fraser, prevented her from speaking publicly or to the media about her claims of innocence.
An arrest warrant gives police authority to arrest a person. But what happens when that person is believed to be inside somebody else’s home?
Including a new strategy to reduce recidivism in SA, a proposed mandatory sentencing for certain breaches of bail in QLD, body-worn cameras coming to max-security prisons in WA and more.
In several Australian jurisdictions, police watch houses have become quasi-prison cells, as punitive crackdowns on bail and other “tough on crime” measures have filled jails across the country.
Queensland prison authorities will no longer be required to consider and act in a way that is compatible with human rights when making decisions that affect people in prison, under legislation the state government has introduced to Parliament.
While corrections departments around the country report that more than 80 per cent of people in prison are working, in reality only about half actually have employment while in custody. This is because of how these departments are reporting the rate of employment and who is counted as being “eligible”.
Children are being held in an “overwhelmingly institutional” watch-house centre with little if any access to fresh air, few opportunities to call home and no privacy, according to a new report.
The High Court of Australia on Wednesday ruled that a woman incarcerated in a Queensland prison should be allowed to freeze her eggs.
Is the NT walking into a more criminalised and less safe future?

A certain song at the right moment can anchor someone to memories, to hope or simply to themselves.

Including the criminal age of responsibility rising to 12 in VIC, prison whistleblower protections proposed for TAS, the bar being lowered to prove prison misconduct in NSW and more.

“I went from writing every day to basically not writing at all by the end, because it was so poorly photocopied or it was delayed,” Sarah told About Time.

When your adult child does something that you don't agree with and you have no say in it – that's hard.

People in prison in Western Australia will soon have access to Australia’s national prison newspaper for the first time, with About Time launching in the state in October.

Drug Courts are specialist courts that can provide an alternative to imprisonment for those who have offended due to drug dependency.

Did you know the bluestone walls of Pentridge Prison once reverberated with the sounds of reggae, punk, pop and country?

Including overcrowding impacting service delivery in youth prisons in the ACT, prison officers going on strike in the NT, a second set of bail reforms passing in VIC and more.

Ideally, parole should enhance rehabilitation and reintegration. In the recent decade, however, rules restricting the granting of parole and a lack of housing options undermine these intended benefits.


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