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Prisoners

Current Issues in Prison Management

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Learn more about the Australian Human Rights Commission's summary of issues in Australian adult corrections and youth detention.
Learn more about the Australian Human Rights Commission's summary of issues in Australian adult corrections and youth detention.

Australia's Sixth Periodic Review

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Learn more about the Commission's update to the Committee against Torture on the implementation of recommendations from their Concluding Observations.
Learn more about the Commission's update to the Committee against Torture on the implementation of recommendations from their Concluding Observations.

Forum to end mistreatment of people with disability in detention

Learn more about the National Forum on Cruel, Degrading and Inhumane Treatment of People with Disability and Mental Health Disorders in Detention.

Governments must end youth detention abuse

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The Australian Human Rights Commission today expressed continuing and deep concern about the abuse of young people in detention.

“The focus on punitive measures is failing young people. A much better approach is to focus on effective early intervention, prevention and diversion programs,” said the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, June Oscar.

The National Children’s Commissioner, Megan Mitchell, said Australia has around 900 children and young people in youth justice detention at any one time.

Judicial review of lawfulness of detention (2013)

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The Australian Human Rights Commission provides this response to the questionnaire from the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in relation to judicial review of the lawfulness of detention.

The Australian Human Rights Commission provides this response to the questionnaire from the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in relation to judicial review of the lawfulness of detention.

OPCAT: Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture

OPCAT
(OPCAT) is an international agreement aimed at preventing torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.