News and Investigations

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.

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.

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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.

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After decades of campaigning by advocates and the Western Australian custodial inspector, air-conditioning was finally installed at Roebourne Regional Prison mid-last year.

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.