Your browser window currently does not have enough height, or is zoomed in too far to view our website content correctly. Once the window reaches the minimum required height or zoom percentage, the content will display automatically.
Alternatively, you can learn more via the links below.
I had no money for the June activity buy-up, and just enough to order thermal underwear (bottom/top) and a beanie for the July activity buy-up. Then I was told it wouldn’t arrive till the end of August! Winter will be over!
In June 2025, a new policy was implemented affecting the low classification placement of inmates in Queensland on offences of manslaughter and attempted murder.
It’s daunting enough when you get arrested by police, then placed into custody and thrown into a cell. Then you have to go through a degrading strip search.
In New South Wales, there were previously three levels of protective custody for vulnerable inmates, such as myself, who have autism spectrum disorder and other mental health issues.
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.
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”.
The High Court of Australia on Wednesday ruled that a woman incarcerated in a Queensland prison should be allowed to freeze her eggs.
People in prison will be paid as little as $1 per hour to work on the state’s roads to free up maintenance crews to fix Victoria’s potholes under a plan the state government will take to the upcoming election.
Including suppression orders being banned for some offenders in VIC, good character to be scrapped in sentencing in WA, major changes made to remand processes in NSW and more.
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.
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.
.jpg)
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.
.jpg)
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.
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.
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.
.webp)
Prison management can now limit incarcerated people’s access to time in the open air for a number of reasons, such as the management, good order or security of the prison.
Australia’s highest court will decide whether a woman in prison in Queensland should be allowed to freeze her eggs while she is incarcerated.
A man in Victoria was left “languishing” on remand in prison with active psychosis for two years before he received any medication, a court has heard.
.webp)
After decades of campaigning by advocates and the Western Australian custodial inspector, air-conditioning was finally installed at Roebourne Regional Prison mid-last year.
.webp)
A man was unlawfully kept in a South Australian prison for months after his release date due to a “systems error”, and was not told about this for five years, an Ombudsman investigation has found.
The state government introduced legislation to Parliament last week that allows for people in prison’s legal right of one hour in the open air every day to be limited due to a range of reasons.
.webp)
There are a number of groups around the country that inspect prisons and provide feedback and recommendations to governments. These often involve visiting prisons and talking directly to people in custody.
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.
In July 2025, four organisations came together to make sure the truth about prisons, policing and criminalisation in Australia was heard on the world stage.
Should going to prison mean never being allowed to hug your partner or child? Is denying physical contact a just punishment, or does it harm families and human dignity? And what do human rights have to say about it?
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.
“It is our assessment that Victoria Police did not comply with the Surveillance Devices Act when installing and maintaining integrated listening devices,” the report said.
As the months went by, I started to think about what could be done in that time. I started to see time in a different light.
The law, like other professions, has its own language. It helps keep all the lawyers huddled around some special stuff and keep the rest of us outside.
In recent years, regressive reform of parole laws in many places has made it increasingly difficult for people in prison to access parole.
With people in prisons across the country being subjected to an “epidemic of prison lockdowns”, it is important to note that bare minimum safeguards exist in law, in most jurisdictions, that purport to guarantee at least some time ‘in the open air’ each day for people behind bars.
Procedural fairness, often called “natural justice”, is a collection of rights, established under common law in Australia around the 1980s.
The concern for those who are subjected to government decisions is that they often do not get to see the integrity of the information which was considered by the decision-maker and don’t get to check if it’s correct.
One of the most important aspects of self-advocacy in prison is to understand the rights of prisoners and the limitations of power of prison authorities.
Strip searching is a security practice purportedly used by prison authorities to prevent drugs and other contraband from entering prisons.
All people behind bars should be treated with dignity.
This article discusses some of the human rights that may be relevant in prison with reference to human rights protections under the Human Rights Act 2019 (QLD) in Queensland.
