Prison
Hundreds dying soon after release from prison
Damning new figures show that being released from jail can be 10 times deadlier than remaining on the inside. New......
Promising new proposals to tackle Indigenous youth incarceration rates
20 years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Indigenous young people are still 28 times likelier......
Doing Time- report into high rates of Aboriginal incarceration
One quarter of Australia’s juvenile prisoners are Aboriginal, despite Indigenous people representing just 2.5 percent of Australia’s population. A senate......
Young people stand up in NSW class action
In an Australian first, a class action has been launched today against the New South Wales government on behalf of......
Calls for action on juvenile justice
A call for a radical re-think of the juvenile justice system in Australia has been celebrated by Indigenous advocacy groups.......
Fresh calls for criminal charges over Mr Ward’s death in custody
Campaigners have called on the West Australian Director of Public Prosecutions to review his decision not to lay criminal charges......
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 20 years on
Twenty years ago this week the royal commission into black deaths in custody handed down a landmark report. It found......
Rally to remove mentally ill from prisons
A rally calling for an end to the jailing of people with mental illness has been held outside Long Bay......
Prison education still stalled despite rehabilitation push in NSW
As the date of the New South Wales election draws nearer, teachers who work in jails are worried that education......
Community protests against Aboriginal deaths in custody
Despite the third anniversary of the apology to the stolen generations taking place on Sunday, many Aboriginal social indicators continue......