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A mother shares her story about raising a baby inside Victoria's medium security Tarrengower Prison, where the other inmates are the child's immediate family, if only temporarily.
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| UpdatedA mother tells her story about raising a baby inside Victoria's Tarrengower Prison, where the other inmates are the child's immediate family, if only temporarily.
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| UpdatedThe cash-strapped Papua New Guinea Correctional Services department say although they are using a standby generator to power their headquarters after the electricity was cut off, they have addressed the food shortage at a jail in the Western Highlands.
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Women inmates at a WA prison have drawn on their personal experience of domestic violence to create a new short film.
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While relationships between prison inmates and psychologists are rare, one expert says even highly trained therapists are not immune to bias and potential manipulation.
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| UpdatedThere must be renewed efforts to break the cycle of youth offending, instead of locking an increasing number of children up, a Victorian Supreme Court judge says.
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to the South China Morning Post's Chris Lau about the sentencing of former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang to 20 months in jail.
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An Israeli court sentences a soldier to 18 months in prison for killing a Palestinian attacker who was lying injured on the ground, capping one of the most divisive trials in Israel's history.
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Gordon Wood is suing the state of NSW for malicious prosecution and wrongful imprisonment over the death of Caroline Byrne, so what does he need to prove?
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| UpdatedAdelaide man Simon Peisley is jailed and his wife given home detention after they concocted death threats, including packages with red-stained children's clothing, at their workplace, the Aboriginal Health Services division of SA Health.
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| UpdatedGlenice Grieve says she sent her son, Zak, news stories of a report criticising Darwin prison's facilities but the Corrections Department blocked their delivery.
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A high security mental health facility in Melbourne — which houses killers and other serious criminals — is set to expand, months after staff rallied for more staff to deal with a jump in violence.
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Renovations to police holding cells in the coming months could cause further overcrowding in South Australian prisons, the Opposition warns.
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