Policing and detention
Media and commentary related to our work to provide critical oversight of NSW Police, prisons and youth detention centres, to protect human rights and ensure fair and lawful treatment.
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Northern Territory detention no place for children with disabilities
In 2016 PIAC was engaged to represent the First Peoples Disability Network (Australia) (FPDN) before the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory. Young Indigenous people are significantly over-represented in the child protection and youth justice systems, and we know that there is a high prevalence of physical, cognitive…
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Drugs problem ‘endemic’ in prison system: Coroner
The NSW Coroner’s Court has found today that the ‘availability of illicit substances in correctional facilities is an endemic problem’. This was a crucial finding in a coronial inquest into the tragic death of a 41-year-old woman who died of a heroin overdose in prison last year. Tracy-Lee Brannigan died in Dillwynia Correctional Centre in…
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Death in prison van leads to transportation change
The NSW Government has responded to the recommendations of the Deputy State Coroner MacMahon in the inquest into the death of Mark Stephen Holcroft in 2009. Mr Holcroft (pictured centre, with family) died after he suffered a heart attack in a prison van travelling from Bathurst Correctional Centre to Mannus Correctional Centre. The Coroner made eight significant…