Prisoners across the state will now have access to treatment for drug and alcohol issues immediately after arrest under a new $2.5 million intervention pilot.
On the first day of the coronial inquest into the Indigenous woman’s death in custody,Dame Phyllis Frost Centre general manager Tracy Jones warned staff about “sensationalised” scrutiny,and urged her colleagues “to not take it personally”.
Seven people were charged with murder and spent more than two years without bail awaiting trial. Last month,they were all found not guilty.
The paedophile jailed for killing Samantha Knight and sexually abusing 13 other young children is in custody after authorities allegedly found searches involving infants on his mobile phone.
The 18-year-old behind the wheel of the overloaded Nissan Navara that crashed at Buxton this week,killing five passengers,is in protective custody in Silverwater.
A Corrective Services NSW officer could be charged with murdering Aboriginal man Dwayne Johnstone. The DPP’s plan has triggered a 24-hour strike.
The convicted drug trafficker was rushed from Barwon Prison with chest pains and is being treated in hospital.
Banksia Hill Detention Centre has been labelled “a tinderbox” by the state’s prison officers union after a Perth court revealed children being locked down for months by chronic understaffing,but the Minister says he has not been told about it.
“When you treat a damaged child like an animal,they will behave like one,” President of the Children’s Court Hylton Quail said of a 15-year-old boy’s treatment in Banksia Hill Detention Centre.
Rapid antigen testing for both jurors and those that fall outside the mandatory vaccine requirements is another measure on the table for the courts facing the vexed balance between health and access to justice.
Eligible NSW prison inmates and staff have been increasingly rejecting the AstraZeneca vaccine over concerns of rare side effects,with less than half of the total population estimated to have received their first shot.