The state government has boosted funding for Victoria’s justice system,with funds aimed at courts,police stations and initiatives to prevent Aboriginal deaths in custody.
Prison inmates are refusing treatment for life-threatening conditions to avoid being taken to the maximum security prison at Long Bay.
The NSW government has defended the rate at which it is modifying jail cells to prevent self harm,following revelations an Indigenous woman took her own life at Silverwater jail last week.
Guards who saw Dimitrios Mavris in the hours before he was found dead in his jail cell thought he “seemed fine”,even in positive spirits. But an inquest has revealed the alleged cocaine importer spent his final hours openly making arrangements to kill himself.
The arrest of Vicki Greenhalgh,52,comes after police formed a task force to investigate relationships between prison officers and their charges.
An inmate from the maximum-security Barwon Prison is fighting for life after being stabbed multiple times in the back.
As Veronica Nelson lay on her cell floor in excruciating pain in the hours before she died,she repeatedly used intercom in desperate attempt to get help.
Every person entering a Queensland prison will undergo temperature and overall health checks,including staff.
Three inmates have been hospitalised after a bloody brawl inside Barwon Prison,the latest in a string of violent incidents inside the prison's walls.
The prisoner who caught the first package started to behave in an"elevated manner"after telling staff he had swallowed an unknown substance.
A teenage inmate has stabbed a prison officer with shiv made from a broom handle.