Prisons Articles

Child bride spared execution in Iran after blood money is paid

Guardian story helped to draw attention to planned hanging of Goli Kouhkan over death of abusive husbandA child bride who was due to be executed this...

Footage of guards holding down and putting spit hood on disabled NT prisoner shown at inquest

Wayne Hunt didn’t receive full medical assessment after seizure in cell and died days later, coroner hearsGet our

Australian governments ‘turning their backs’ on soaring Indigenous incarceration, former minister says

Robert Tickner says there are ‘no excuses for the failure to implement’ recommendations from the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in...

Don Dale detainee isolated for 84 hours and denied food as coercion technique, investigation finds

Children’s commissioner says young Indigenous person kept in isolation for 12 hours longer than permitted under NT youth justice laws because they...