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Lauren Flanigan, who was accused of murdering daughter Sophie in Bundaberg on May 26, 2025, has been found unresponsive in prison.

Qld mother who allegedly killed daughter found ‘unresponsive’ in jail

Lauren Flanigan, who was charged with stabbing her three-year-old daughter, has been taken to hospital in a critical condition.

  • Savannah Meacham

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Wacol Youth Remand Centre.

‘In crisis’: UN experts condemn youth justice systems, Queensland laws

A special rapporteur on torture has been investigating Australia’s youth justice system following a confidential submission.

  • Courtney Kruk
A cell at Alcatraz Island.

Alcatraz was America’s most notorious prison. Trump wants to reopen it

The island fortress off San Francisco – mythologised as “inescapable” – has been closed for more than 60 years. It was shut down for good reason.

  • Ed White, Jill Colvin and Michael R. Sisak
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Daniel Hope went to jail a teenager. He’s coming out a ‘monster’

“His last words to me last Saturday were: ‘The system has made me the person I am today.’ I have thought long and hard about that.”

  • Erin Pearson
Rick Thorburn was arrested in September 2016 and charged with Tiahleigh’s murder, 11 months after she disappeared.

Child killer Rick Thorburn found dead in cell

Thorburn, also a convicted child rapist, was serving a life sentence at Woodford Correctional Centre for murdering his 12-year-old foster daughter a decade ago.

  • Courtney Kruk
Minister for youth justice and corrective services Laura Gerber with police minister Dan Purdie at the opening of the Wacol Youth Remand Centre on Saturday morning.

Remand centre for young offenders finally opens in Brisbane

The 76-bed Wacol facility, announced under the Palaszczuk government, will reduce the strain on the state’s watchhouses and help youths develop new skills.

  • Courtney Kruk
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The Department of Justice suggested the artwork could be a mural on the basketball court.

‘Embrace an element of fun’: WA to spend $120k on artwork for kids detention centre

“The art should embrace an element of fun—to capture play and youth of creativity balancing the deeper themes of hope and belonging with the simple pleasure that art can bring.”

  • Hamish Hastie
Ricky-Lee Cound died by suicide in a prison cell three years ago.

Hakea inmates called guards, worried about their friend self-harming. Officers checked a water spill first

Ricky-Lee Cound was the first adult prisoner in WA to die in custody who had been formally diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Parklea jail will return to public hands amid increasing pressure on the state’s prison system.

The NSW law changes that put an extra 1000 people behind bars

The Minns government announced Parklea jail would return to public hands at a moment of increasing pressure on the state’s prison system.

  • Michael McGowan
Matthew Radalj, 39, spent nearly 5 years in jail in China following what he says was an extortion attempt at an electronics store where he had taken his yellow iphone to be repaired.

Matthew went to get his iPhone fixed – and spent the next five years in a Beijing jail

An Australian man says an extortion attempt at an electronics repair store landed him in prison, where he was forced to confess to stealing his own phone.

  • Lisa Visentin

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