News and Investigations

Two First Nations mothers have settled a case against NSW Police that alleged that hundreds of bail checks during the middle of the night on their teenage children amounted to trespass.

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After decades of campaigning, the state will scrap an offence punishable by up to a year in prison, shifting the response to poverty and homelessness away from policing.

Victoria Police now have the power to secretly access the financial records of anyone as part of investigations of all crimes under a last-minute amendment passed by Parliament quietly last week.

Including a man being unlawfully kept in prison for months after his release date in SA, the findings from the Capricornia Inspection in QLD, upcoming inspections in WA and more.

The NSW government has detailed a new statewide mental health emergency response model centred on paramedics responding to people who are in crisis in some cases, instead of police.

Including prison policy changes being tracked online in the ACT, concerns in the NT over a lack of a forensic mental health unit, new gym equipment coming to Western Plains in VIC and more.

It explores masculinity, imprisonment and the impact of incarceration on families, through the interviews with fathers in prison.

There are groundbreaking programs around the world aiming to help fathers behind bars.

The Storytime program, run in prisons in NSW, Queensland and WA, records fathers reading stories and sends them to their kids on the outside.

A standalone legal service is needed to address the “significant unmet needs” of people in prison, particularly women, trans and gender diverse people, according to a new report.