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Perth
WA prisons introducing full-body X-ray scanners to detect hidden contraband
The scanners aim to stem drug flow into Perth prisons after a random test of inmates at one jail found nearly half were high on methamphetamine.
- by Holly Thompson
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Silverwater prison guard charged with sexually assaulting colleague
Scott Hawken is alleged to have drugged his colleague, who had been suffering from menstrual cramps, before sexually assaulting her at her home.
- by Amelia McGuire
Opinion
NSW budget
Perrottet’s wage offer is a pay cut, so we have to strike
A real and decent pay rise for NSW’s public sector workers is not just ethically sound, it’s economically smart. But the NSW premier has other ideas.
- by Nicole Jess
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Justice
Andrews government dumps young offender legislation ahead of election
The decision will come as a major blow to Indigenous, legal and children’s services who for years have fought for changes, with one peak organisation pleading with parliamentarians to put First Nations youth before politics.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
They were offered a ‘trip of a lifetime’ but wound up in an Australian jail
When two American friends – later dubbed the “Drug Grannies” – were offered an all-expenses-paid trip, it seemed like an offer too good to refuse.
- by Sandi Logan
Prison healthcare contractor denies cover-up after Indigenous woman’s death
The provider, which has a $700 million contract with Victorian prisons, has denied it attempted to cover up failings in the care of Veronica Nelson after a coroner heard key evidence wasn’t passed onto investigators.
- by Erin Pearson
Children form ‘suicide squad’ in WA’s juvenile prison
The inspector of custodial services linked the lack of hours spent outside a cell by children to an increase in suicide attempts.
- by Peter de Kruijff
The juvenile prison where child was ‘treated like an animal’ gets funding boost
Three months after Perth Children’s Court president Hylton Quail said Western Australia’s juvenile prison was putting children into lockdowns for so long they were better off in an adult prison, the state government says there will be new staff and a crisis care unit.
- by Daile Cross
Tony Mokbel rushed to hospital with chest pains
The convicted drug trafficker was rushed from Barwon Prison with chest pains and is being treated in hospital.
- by Cameron Houston
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Good Weekend
Terror, loneliness, a lovesick guard: Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s 804 days in a Tehran jail
Her cell was disgusting, the food barely edible, humiliation constant. The Melbourne academic recalls a brutal existence.
- by Jane Cadzow
Ten prisoners charged over riot at Acacia Prison
The charges follow more than six hours of mayhem where 100 prisoners took over the prison, forcing guards to lock themselves away.
- by Holly Thompson