Opinion
“Ill-considered” legislation before state parliament to improve monitoring of SA prisons in the wake of abuses interstate must be reworked in order to guarantee inspectors are independent and given the powers to do their job, argues Laura Grenfell.
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The prison officers union is demanding access to confidential details of a benchmarking program used to identify potential job cuts in SA prisons.
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The public sector union has expressed dismay after global services company Serco announced it had won the State Government contract to run the Adelaide Remand Centre for seven years, with an option to extend for another five.
People identified as being associated with criminal organisations, including outlaw bikie gangs, will be banned from visiting prisoners in South Australia under a new law.
Changes to how young people are sentenced for serious crimes will crush any hope of them leading effective lives outside the justice system, says a lawyer and researcher who has interviewed every juvenile offender serving a current sentence for murder in South Australia.
More than a third of people held in a South Australian prison are waiting for their day in court, yet to be found innocent or guilty, new figures show.
