News and Investigations

With Mother’s Day this month, prison visits have never been more important. But for children with a parent in prison, or other loved ones, this process can be scary and intimidating, with a lot of rules and conditions.

Australia’s biggest prison is so “grossly understaffed” in mental health services that people with acute needs should not be held there, the NSW prison inspector has found.

South Australia is the only state or territory in Australia that does not provide 24/7 medical staff on site at its women’s prison.

A program helping First Nations children being held in police watch houses in Queensland will stop operating after losing its state government funding.

The Victorian government in late February announced plans to remove the use of ‘good character’ references at sentencing.

Including a smoking ban no longer going ahead in WA, changes to the Home Detention Scheme in SA, a hiring spree at Lockyer Prison and more.

In my speech, I emphasised that strip searching is sexual assault disguised as prison safety. Strip searching is not about safety – and the data proves it.

There are more than 4000 places in Australia where people can access free clean needles and syringes. But there are none in any prison.

There have been 29 deaths in custody in the first three months of this year.

The family of proud Noongar man Jeffrey Winmar have travelled to Victoria to push for answers and justice at a coronial inquest into his death in police custody in late 2023.