Archive of posts in the 'Policing and Detention' category
New data shows segregations exceeding 24 hours in New South Wales juvenile justice centres have increased over the past year,...
A UN Subcommittee responsible for the prevention of torture and cruel and degrading treatment recently visited Australia to carry out...
We express profound concern that the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has been forced to take the...
A statement of concern from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), Community Legal Centres NSW, Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC),...
More than 128,000 community members, lawyers, and advocates from NSW and Victoria have called for the age of legal responsibility...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has filed a test case in the Supreme Court challenging the use of “segregation”...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has filed a test case in the Supreme Court challenging the use of “segregation” as...
When Daniel* was taken into custody for the first time at the age of 17, he had never experienced any...
As NSW continues to emerge from the pandemic, and the Government focuses on a return to “business as usual”, thousands...
Lead solicitor for the Police Accountability Team at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), Grace Gooley told Junkee that the...