Australia’s prison system

If prisons don’t boost community safety, why is Australia building more?

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Australia is in the grips of a prison boom with more people behind bars than ever before. According to recent...

Behind the bars of Australia’s expanding prison system

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Last week, a report into government services found more than $1 billion is spent keeping children in youth detention a...

Rehabilitation or punishment?

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In 2022, more than half of the prison population were told that they had a mental health condition at some...

First Nations rights are human rights: advocate

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Human rights in Australia are unfair for First Nations people in Australia’s prison system, according to an Indigenous rights advocate....