Teenager Cleveland Dodd threatened to self harm eight times on the day he tried to take his life at the Unit 18 youth wing of Casuarina Prison,an inquest has been told.
In her final report to parliament,outgoing Ombudsman Deborah Glass has described “a battle for my independence,with gender overtones”.
The government has been accused of betraying Aboriginal youths and walking away from its commitments after dropping the plans.
A prison guard pleaded with convicted killer Jessica Camilleri as her hair was ripped from the scalp in an assault nearly identical to attacks two years earlier.
Almost everyone had heard about the Sydney man’s regime of sexual cruelty. The boys’ club kept him safe to prey on more women.
A man has died in custody at Hakea Prison after a fire at the facility in Perth’s south-east.
The extraordinary move comes as the Prison Officers’ Union warned Hakea was a tinderbox waiting to explode,with fewer staff dealing with more prisoners as cell temperatures climb above 50 degrees.
More than 2000 “shivs”,knuckle dusters and bludgeons have been found inside Victoria’s network of 12 prisons over the past five years – a rate of about one weapon a day.
Robert Taylor was facing deportation to the UK under strict immigration laws despite living in Australia his whole life. His fight to be released back to his family was eventually successful.
Victoria’s workplace safety watchdog has issued damning reports into a system that was only recently the subject of a royal commission.
Almost 40 per cent of adults in Victorian prisons in 2022-23 had been recently released from jail before returning with a new sentence.