Gangland boss George Marrogi continues to thwart strict prison security protocols,having gone to extreme lengths to keep in contact with the outside world.
About 82 per cent of WA prisoners are smokers,compared to about 11 per cent in the broader community,and tobacco products are by far their most-bought items.
Just 18 months ago,she described herself as a childless divorcee with no job. Now the scholar and former political prisoner is a new mother on a mission to pressure our government to do better.
The new technique,known as the Safe Mattress,is one of several restraint options replacing the now-banned ‘figure four’ hog-tie restraint.
Advocates have slammed the government’s two-page response to inquiries calling to help Victoria’s “invisible” population of children with parents in jail.
Chilean prison officials realised,after decades ignoring them,that the feline residents were not only good for the rat problem:they were also good for the inmates.
Detained children are attacking officers with make-shift blades,metal plates and planks of wood as frightening new details emerge about WA’s youth justice system.
An Aboriginal man has died at a prison in Western Australia.
Calls from public phones are free,but in Australian prisons they are prohibitively expensive,costing some prisoners almost their entire week’s wage on a single phone call.
While many things have changed over the years inside prisons,one thing remains constant. Some inmates want the next hit,and others want to profit.
Tomison’s departure is the second major change to corrective services top brass in the state in three months after the Corrective Services Commissioner Mike Reynolds was booted in October.