Archive of posts in the 'Policing and Detention' category
A glitch in the police computer system is resulting in dozens of people on bail being wrongfully arrested. Robert Ovadia...
PIAC and Maurice Blackburn, who are jointly acting in a class action on behalf of young people allegedly wrongfully arrested...
PIAC has welcomed the independent review of the oversight mechanisms for the NSW Police Force, being conducted by Mr Andrew...
Congratulations to everyone involved in the development of the Legal Information Portal for Prisoners, which won a ‘Working Collaboratively’ Award...
The NSW Coroner’s Court has found today that the ‘availability of illicit substances in correctional facilities is an endemic problem’....
A coronial inquest in Sydney is to investigate how a young and convicted drug dealer could die of a heroin...
An inquest will hear today how the tragic death of a 41-year old woman from a heroin overdose in prison...
The paper deals with the 2011 NSW Inquest into the death in custody of Mark Holcroft in 2009 and the...
It is essential that the Federal Government’s roadmap for mental health reform provides a national focus for the issue of...
In January 2012, the Federal Government released the draft Ten-Year Roadmap for National Mental Health Reform. The Roadmap details a...