Prisons
‘Multiple failures’: Urgent review after triple killer found living with foster children
The NSW state government has ordered an urgent review after a convicted triple killer was found living with foster children – despite the department being informed in December.
- Jessica McSweeney
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‘Around the Christmas table’: The premier, his brother and the five-day prison policy backflip
The premier says his brother tells him “exactly what’s going on” about corrective services. Jim Minns says the pair never talk about work.
- Max Maddison
Good Samaritan killed at train station remembered as hero with a kind soul
Aidan Becker was killed while intervening as a group allegedly tried to rob a schoolboy, police say. His friends remembered him as kind and optimistic.
- Angus Delaney and Marta Pascual Juanola
Victoria to ban ‘good character’ references from watering down sentences
Convicted offenders in Victoria will no longer be able to rely on good character references to reduce their sentences, after years of advocacy from child sex abuse survivors.
- Rachel Eddie
Calls for needle-exchange program after hundreds of prisoners at risk
Almost 300 people have potentially been exposed to HIV and hepatitis C in prison, but the state government has brushed aside calls for sterile equipment.
- Courtney Kruk
Victorians pay $600 a day for every prisoner and rehabilitation is still failing
A prison purpose-built for slashing reoffending is failing to live up to its promise, with four out of 10 inmates back in jail within two years, a report has found.
- Melissa Cunningham
Secret payout after sexual assault by trans murderer in women’s prison
The confidential settlement, involving murderer Clinton Rintoull, follows an overhaul of how transgender prisoners are managed by Corrections Victoria.
- Daniella White
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‘Abysmal’ completion rates for prison education leads to recidivism fears
Efforts to rehabilitate offenders through education in prison failing abysmally, say experts, who are calling for a new approach.
- Noel Towell
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When I was behind bars, time stopped. But you could never hide from the new year
When I was first arrested in Iran and thrown into a solitary confinement cell in Evin prison I would carve a line for each day into the soft plaster of the wall and try to work backwards to figure out the date.
- Kylie Moore-Gilbert
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Former prison finance officer stole $315,000 from inmates’ family members
Rabhi Sobhi took the bail surety from prisoners’ loved ones and altered financial records. His case involved the longest delay a judge described seeing in 30 years.
- Clare Sibthorpe