Prisons and Punishment

• Calls for better support with children of prisoners six times more likely to be jailed

  By Rebecca Opie

  Posted February 18, 2017 14:39:10

  As the number of Australian prisoners continues to rise, a judge calls for more support of programs that break the cycle of reoffending and protect the growing number of children left behind.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, charities-and-community-organisations, adelaide-5000, sa

• Teens 'brutalised at Victoria's Barwon adult prison'

  By Jean Edwards

  Posted February 17, 2017 19:01:32

  Teenage detainees at Victoria's maximum-security Barwon prison have been pinned down in their cells, punched and kicked by adult prison guards, human rights lawyers claim.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, crime, judges-and-legal-profession, human, anakie-3221, vic

• Former leaders, law and order, and offensive tweets on WA campaign hustings

  Posted February 16, 2017 21:29:36 | Updated February 17, 2017 11:31:13

  It 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

• SA prison lockdown ends

  Posted February 16, 2017 11:29:55 | Updated February 16, 2017 12:29:09

  A 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

• Murderers must tell where victims are before seeking parole

  By Leonie Mellor, David Chen and staff

  Posted February 16, 2017 06:49:37 | Updated February 16, 2017 16:16:49

  New '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

• Overcrowding worries prompts SA prisons lockdown

  By Lauren Waldhuter

  Posted February 15, 2017 15:59:44 | Updated February 15, 2017 19:16:10

  A 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

• Young inmates use rocks, fire extinguishers in Victorian prison riot

  Posted February 14, 2017 07:53:41 | Updated February 14, 2017 14:52:12

  Youth 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

• Tractors rumble through Melbourne's west as thousands rally against detention centre

  By Karen Percy

  Posted February 14, 2017 07:33:15 | Updated February 14, 2017 09:43:44

  Several 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

• Capsicum spray used on teens inside Victorian adult prison, court hears

  By James Hancock

  Posted February 13, 2017 17:33:09

  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

• Secure unit for criminals deemed unfit for release to be built in Victoria's west

  By Jean Edwards

  Posted February 13, 2017 16:40:06 | Updated February 13, 2017 17:11:15

  A 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

• Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration

  By political reporter Dan Conifer

  Posted February 13, 2017 00:26:31 | Updated February 13, 2017 20:49:49

  The 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

• Art program sets Indigenous prisoners on a different path

  ABC Radio Melbourne

  By Fiona Pepper

  Posted February 10, 2017 11:44:58 | Updated February 10, 2017 13:21:15

  An 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

• Australia pledges to ratify international torture treaty

  By political reporter Alexandra Beech

  Posted February 09, 2017 14:10:17 | Updated February 09, 2017 15:23:17

  The 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

• Staff shortage blamed for PNG jail break

  By Joy Kisselpar

  Posted February 08, 2017 19:32:51

  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

• Thousands of criminals on community orders likely to reoffend: report

  By James Hancock

  Posted February 08, 2017 18:17:00

  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

• Violence in Victoria's youth justice system putting lives 'at risk'

  By Karen Percy

  Posted February 07, 2017 15:18:53

  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

• Syria accused of hanging 20–50 anti-Assad prisoners every week

  By Middle East correspondent Matt Brown

  Posted February 07, 2017 09:21:05 | Updated February 07, 2017 09:34:53

  The 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

• New youth prison in outer Melbourne to replace Parkville centre after riots review

  By Loretta Florance, staff

  Posted February 06, 2017 09:25:27 | Updated February 06, 2017 12:32:49

  The 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

• Revenge porn sex scam lands ex-boyfriend in jail

  By Louisa Rebgetz

  Posted February 03, 2017 15:27:49 | Updated February 03, 2017 19:01:35

  A 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

• Youth to be sentenced as adult over fatal crash

  By court reporter Candice Prosser

  Posted February 03, 2017 10:58:36

  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

• Mother of slain DV victim demands government action to halt violence

  By Ashleigh Stevenson

  Posted February 02, 2017 17:43:20 | Updated February 02, 2017 19:30:59

  Bonnie 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

• Selling rehab to a community angry about youth crime

  By the National Reporting Team's Jane Bardon

  Posted February 02, 2017 12:33:30

  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

• Former childcare director jailed for sex abuse of 6yo girl

  By court reporter Candice Prosser

  Posted February 02, 2017 11:53:35 | Updated February 02, 2017 15:06:46

  A 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

• Man may have posted video advocating terrorism while in custody

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  By Alex Mann

  Posted February 01, 2017 20:30:12

  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

• Dylan Voller 'consistently behaving badly in jail', court hears

  By Avani Dias

  Posted February 01, 2017 15:38:01 | Updated February 01, 2017 19:54:36

  Prosecutors 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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