Latest prisons News

UN torture prevention body to visit Greece
Implementation Of National Redress Scheme
Children’s Commissioner welcomes Senate Inquiry into child justice
UN torture prevention body to carry out new visit: Nigeria
New Technology To Keep Our Prisons Safe
Govt Must End Solitary Confinement
Govt must maintain Treaty provisions in Corrections Bill
States must follow through on our obligations to international treaties in prisons
Leading Nation To Virtually Eliminate Hep C In Prisons
Drugs Intercepted At Yatala Prison
National action plan on indigenous rights among measures needed to improve human rights, says expert: Cambodia
Govt Must Listen To Experiences Of Abuse Survivors
Prisoners enlisted to guide puppies in special training program
Wheels of justice to slow as Government hits own goal on law and order
Bugg Independent Review into Surveillance Devices in Prisons released
Paradigm shift towards rehabilitative approach needed for effective torture prevention, UN experts find: Mongolia
People with disability suffer cruelty and maltreatment in detention: report
UN experts on arbitrary detention to visit Canada
Police Release Images Of Man After Coburg Robbery
Militarisation of prisons and detention conditions raise concerns, UN torture prevention body says: Honduras
Paper Chained International Art Exhibition
Three Strikes Has Failed Before And Will Fail Again
Police Arrest Woman In Prison Buffer Zone
UN torture prevention body to visit Albania
Reducing the impact of tobacco use on patients in custody and forensic hospital settings
Premier Allan must raise the age to 14, not cave to pressure
Somalia: Red Cross begins Ramadan food deliveries for detainees
UN Torture prevention body to re-visit Gabon
Greens call for immediate resignation of top Corrections officers in light of damning Astill report released today
Making Prison Chance To Get Healthy
Inspector tables damning report on Metropolitan Prison days after death in custody
Māori face significant harm from axing govt funding of background reports
Another death in custody at Parklea Correctional Centre
Youth justice system continues to fail young Tasmanians 31 January 2024
UN experts: Iraq must immediately stop mass, unannounced executions
CEO’s Message January 2024
Organ donors have heart for Carinity Wishart Gardens
Carinity’s prison ministry supporting people inside for 50 years
Independent Ministerial Advisory Council to give victims a voice
Victorian Government still has no plan for survival of 1,500 threatened species
AFP helps Samoan police patrol go mobile
Correction centres returning to public hands a welcome step towards rehabilitative justice
Oxfam Australia welcomes ACT legislation to raise the age
New correctional officers, GP dogs join front line
Prison officers accept wages offer
Prison education program could help students work towards degree
2022 Human Rights Oration by Larissa Behrendt
Labour’s prison U-turn comes six years too late