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| UpdatedIt was back to the 1990s on the campaign trail as former leaders lent their support, while old tweets, solar subsidies and law and order also rated mentions.
Topics: elections, political-parties, solar-energy, prisons-and-punishment, wa
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| UpdatedA lockdown of South Australian prisons ends as the union representing prison staff and the State Government head to the Industrial Relations Commission.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, cadell-5321, sa
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| UpdatedNew 'no body, no parole' legislation means prisoners convicted of murder or manslaughter will need to identify the location of their victim's body before being eligible for early release under sweeping changes announced to the Queensland parole system.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, state-parliament, public-sector, laws, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA union places inmates in all South Australian prisons in lockdown over what it says is a failing by the Corrections Department to address overcrowding concerns.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, murray-bridge-5253, sa, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, cadell-5321
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| UpdatedYouth offenders riot at a maximum security prison south-west of Melbourne, damaging property with rocks and fire extinguishers and injuring a staff member.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, vic
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| UpdatedSeveral thousand protesters gather in Melbourne's west to voice their anger at the Victorian Government's decision to build a new youth detention centre at Werribee South.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, states-and-territories, werribee-3030, melbourne-3000, vic
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Capsicum spray has been deployed on "multiple occasions" in the past fortnight against teenagers being held inside Victoria's Barwon Prison, the Supreme Court is told.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, community-and-society, state-parliament, melbourne-3000, lara-3212
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| UpdatedA new 20-bed unit for dangerous criminals who have served their jail time in Victoria but are not fit to be released into the community will be built in the town of Ararat.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, ararat-3377, vic
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| UpdatedThe Greens urge the Federal Government to establish targets for driving down the number of Indigenous Australians in jail.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedAn exhibition in Melbourne displays the artwork of 145 Indigenous men and women who are currently or have previously served in the Victorian prison system.
Topics: painting, visual-art, prisons-and-punishment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe Government announces it will ratify an international treaty to improve the management and oversight of Australia's prisons and detention centres by the end of 2017.
Topics: federal-government, law-crime-and-justice, youth, prisons-and-punishment, australia
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Fourteen prisoners remain on the run in Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands after a breakout last week.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, papua-new-guinea
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More than 3,000 criminals serving their sentences in the community are considered a "high risk" of reoffending and are not being managed correctly, a damning report finds.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, crime, states-and-territories, vic
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Documents obtained by the ABC reveal just how bad the situation has become in Victoria's troubled youth justice system, as workplace safety inspectors raise concerns workers' lives are at risk.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, safety, workplace, accidents, work, community-and-society, youth, parkville-3052, vic, malmsbury-3446, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe Syrian Government is accused of systematically killing up to 13,000 detainees — mostly civilians opposed to the Assad regime — over five years at a prison north of Damascus by Amnesty International, which has labelled the hangings a crime against humanity.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government will build a new high security prison to house 224 young offenders in Werribee South, and will eventually close down the troubled Parkville youth justice centre, the Premier announces.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, youth, community-and-society, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, melbourne-3000, werribee-3030, parkville-3052, vic
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| UpdatedA woman who became the victim of an online sex scam at the hands of a former lover tells a Brisbane court she felt humiliated and "a prisoner in her own home".
Topics: pornography, sexual-offences, domestic-violence, courts-and-trials, prisons-and-punishment, brisbane-4000
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The 15-year-old driver of a stolen ute who killed Adelaide woman Nicole Tucker in a fiery crash will be sentenced as an adult.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, bedford-park-5042, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedBonnie Mobbs says her daughter Shelsea Schilling deserved to live and demands governments move to halt domestic violence, as Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls vows to introduce a bill to toughen bail applications.
Topics: domestic-violence, laws, prisons-and-punishment, state-parliament, southport-4215
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The Northern Territory Government is convinced youth diversion and rehab is a better way to cut youth offending and detention rates, than incarcerating children but it will have a tough argument to make to a community angry about youth crime.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, human, rights, youth, nt, australia
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| UpdatedA man described as an evil and insidious sex offender is jailed for the abuse of a six-year-old girl in South Australia, with the judge condemning his behaviour for casting a shadow over all male carers and teachers.
Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, prisons-and-punishment, crime, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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A South Australian man charged with advocating terrorism may have posted videos on social media in support of terrorist organisations while in custody.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, terrorism, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedProsecutors are opposing a bid by former Don Dale detainee Dylan Voller to be released early from prison, saying he has consistently behaved badly in jail.
Topics: courts-and-trials, youth, prisons-and-punishment, human, rights, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedA close family member says David Bradford was failed by Queensland's mental health support system before he killed his estranged wife Teresa and took his own life.
Topics: domestic-violence, mental-health, murder-and-manslaughter, prisons-and-punishment, courts-and-trials, pimpama-4209
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| UpdatedThe mother of a 16-year-old boy who was being held in Barwon Prison says he suffered a fractured vertebra after being bashed by fellow inmates in an unprovoked attack.
Topics: youth, states-and-territories, prisons-and-punishment, barwon-heads-3227, malmsbury-3446, vic