Indigenous incarceration

Self-care is important – but we shouldn’t mistake it for feminist action | Zoya Patel
As long as there is a big gap between the women who have the most freedoms, and those with the least, our work as feminists is not over
Zoya Patel
01, Feb, 2023 @1:02 AM

Unsentenced prisoners make up a third of Australia’s prison population as bail refusals boom
Advocates urge overhaul of laws to ensure people aren’t needlessly funnelled into jail
Adeshola Ore
31, Jan, 2023 @2:00 PM

Daniel Andrews promises Victorian bail law reform after inquest into Veronica Nelson’s death
Premier vows responsibility to ‘make the necessary changes’ after state coroner recommended urgent review of bail act
Adeshola Ore and AAP
31, Jan, 2023 @4:14 AM

‘Complete, unmitigated disaster’: inquest into Veronica Nelson’s death urges overhaul of ‘discriminatory’ Victorian bail laws
Coroner refers prison health contractor to Director of Public Prosecutions over death in custody
Adeshola Ore
30, Jan, 2023 @4:04 AM

Australia’s credibility on human rights blighted by laws targeting climate protesters and jailing children, report says
Human Rights Watch calls on government to address its own ‘alarming deficiencies’, including detention of children under 14 and treatment of asylum seekers
Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent
12, Jan, 2023 @3:15 AM

Indigenous prisoner complained of severe migraines before dying in custody in Perth
Exclusive: Dannielle Lowe, 41, told partner of being in ‘agony’ in weeks before her death on Christmas Eve
Eden Gillespie
03, Jan, 2023 @2:00 PM

Advocates call for urgent action after two ‘incredibly tragic’ Aboriginal deaths in custody
Linda Burney says rates of Indigenous incarceration and deaths in custody 30 years after royal commission are a ‘national shame’
Eden Gillespie
29, Dec, 2022 @2:00 PM

Indigenous deaths in custody rises to 516 since the 1991 royal commission, report says
The Australian Institute of Criminology’s annual report shows 106 people died in custody between July 2021 and July 2022, with 16 of those being of Indigenous descent
Josh Taylor
19, Dec, 2022 @2:00 PM

‘Torturous behaviour’: hundreds join class action against Western Australian juvenile justice centre
Current and former Banksia Hill inmates allege they were subjected to human rights breaches including forcible strip-searches
Sarah Collard
07, Dec, 2022 @5:40 AM

Plan to overhaul troubled Banksia Hill youth detention centre commissioned but kept secret
Aboriginal leaders express anger as review declared an ‘internal document’ just weeks after crisis talks with state government
Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs reporter
01, Dec, 2022 @2:00 PM

Indigenous groups welcome Northern Territory raising criminal age but say 12 still too young
NT first jurisdiction in Australia to lift age while Aboriginal advocates and human rights experts continue push for at least 14
Sarah Collard
30, Nov, 2022 @4:07 AM

‘International embarrassment’: WA government taken to task over treatment of Aboriginal children in detention
Indigenous human rights expert says state is risking its reputation – ‘We’ve seen children assaulted, treated in highly abusive ways’
Sarah Collard
29, Nov, 2022 @2:00 PM
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