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Youth advocates say a report into Queensland's youth detention centres being handed to the State Government today needs to spark a major overhaul of the system.
Topics: youth, prisons-and-punishment, crime-prevention, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedSome of the teenagers detained inside Victoria's maximum-security prison were warned any violent behaviour would be met with the use of teargas, firearms and dogs, a court hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, youth, prisons-and-punishment, melbourne-3000, lara-3212
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| UpdatedGiving a voice to Dylan Voller and his peers is the reason the NT royal commission exists. The difficulty and value of achieving that goal should not be underestimated, writes Kate Wild.
Topics: child-abuse, youth, prisons-and-punishment, royal-commissions, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA teenager who allegedly threatened to rape a female security guard has had his human rights infringed while being detained in a temporary youth justice unit at Victoria's maximum security prison, a Supreme Court judge finds.
Topics: courts-and-trials, prisons-and-punishment, youth, melbourne-3000, lara-3212, vic
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| UpdatedDylan Voller's former case worker tells the royal commission that adversarial and judgemental case workers compounded the young detainee's problems, and the system failed to give him the support he needed.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, youth, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, darwin-0800, nt, alice-springs-0870
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Substantiated misconduct allegations against staff at Queensland's two youth detention centres have more than tripled in the past year, but there has been no increase in the number of employees to be sacked.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, government-and-politics, qld, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810
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Dylan Voller speaks publicly for the first time about his experience in youth detention, telling a royal commission being hooded in a restraint chair and tear-gassed are the scariest things to have ever happened to him.
Topics: royal-commissions, prisons-and-punishment, youth, nt
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More high-security prison facilities will be built for women inmates in South Australia and new facilities added at Mount Gambier, at a time when the Government is keen to cut overall inmate numbers.
Topics: states-and-territories, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, sa, northfield-5085, mount-gambier-5290, adelaide-5000
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Volunteers from around Canberra spend the day packing Christmas hampers for ex-prisoners and their families, just in time for the holiday season.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, charities-and-community-organisations, christianity, canberra-2600, act, australia
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A playground for visiting children is installed at Tasmania's Risdon Prison to help "dads be dads".
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, children, risdon-vale-7016, tas
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A Darwin youth worker who designed a t-shirt after three cousins took their own lives in just 10 days, calls for more to be done to address devastating Indigenous suicide rates.
Topics: suicide, depression, mental-health, youth, prisons-and-punishment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThe brother of a boy who was allegedly stripped of his clothes with a knife and left in isolation at the Don Dale youth detention centre wants fresh charges laid against guards.
Topics: royal-commissions, youth, community-and-society, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800, nt, australia
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| UpdatedRoyal commissioners have rejected the NT Government's attempt to vacate the rest of December hearings, after it argued it did not have time to prepare.
Topics: child-abuse, youth, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, royal-commissions, nt, darwin-0800
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A Coffs Harbour massage therapist who indecently assaulted dozens of his female patients will spend at least nine years behind bars.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, massage, health, assault, prisons-and-punishment, coffs-harbour-2450
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| UpdatedJuvenile offenders are overwhelmingly from dysfunctional families, the WA Children's Commissioner finds, after interviewing 92 young offenders.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, youth, canning-vale-6155
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| UpdatedThe commissioners investigating juvenile detention in the NT have had a confronting visit to the site where six teenagers were teargassed in 2014.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, youth, nt
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| UpdatedIndigenous staff at Darwin's Don Dale youth detention centre say their reputations had been unfairly tarnished by the actions of some colleagues but they remain determined to work with the young inmates.
Topics: child-abuse, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, royal-commissions, nt, darwin-0800
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A Cambodian appeals court upholds the 23-year prison term Australian woman Yoshe Ann Taylor received for trying to smuggle heroin into Australia, as well as the sentences given to a Frenchwoman and Nigerian man.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, international-law, prisons-and-punishment, cambodia, australia
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory's imprisonment rate is already amongst the world's highest but it could skyrocket in coming years unless more is done to stop "at-risk" children becoming adult criminals, an inquiry hears.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, youth, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, courts-and-trials, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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Drugs are increasingly being found in south-east Queensland prisons as Corrective Services staff struggle to detect illicit substances, a union says.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, drugs-and-substance-abuse, state-parliament, qld
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government's transfer of young detainees to a segregated wing of a high-security adult jail is being challenged in the Supreme Court.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, community-and-society, courts-and-trials, state-parliament, parkville-3052, melbourne-3000
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Violence inside Perth's Banksia Hill Detention Centre is probably the result of boredom and drugs, according to inmates.
Topics: youth, crime, prisons-and-punishment, perth-7300
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| UpdatedNew legislation in Victoria would ensure police killers such as Russell Street bomber Craig Minogue serve full sentences, but an expert says it is a "symbolic" move by a Government trying to look tough on crime.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, state-parliament, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedWestern Australia's Roebourne prison is "decrepit" and poses a significant risk to inmate health and safety, the state's Custodial Inspector says.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, roebourne-6718
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| UpdatedSix detainees lock themselves in their cells and three others pelt rocks at prison officers from the roof during more unrest at Perth's Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, canning-vale-6155, perth-6000, wa