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Governor General Sir Patrick Allen delivering the Throne Speech in Parliament on Thursday. The Government is advancing the development of what it said are four “complex priority pieces of legislation” which are currently at the draft Bill stage as part of efforts to tame the crime monster. The four pieces of legislation are: - An Act to Repeal and Replace the Firearms Act; - The Criminal Administration (Suppression of Criminal Organisations) (Amendment) Act; - The Immigration Restrictions (Commonwealth Citizens) (Amendment) Act; and - The Aliens (Amendment) Act. Governor-General Sir Patr...

THE Government has spent close to $1 billion on improvements to facilities and other capi...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Liberty is one of the most basic of human rights, yet this is the first human right stripped from a person who has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment . The next human rights to be taken from a prisoner are dignity and respect. In 1948, the 'The Declaration of Human Rights' (UDHR), which totalled 30 human rights, for every person on earth. Today, those same rights are still part of 'International Human Rights Law'. In that year, 50 nations collaborated to make a list for all

The civil service sub-committee of the Corrections Department will dismiss five officials, all prison warders, from the government service for breach of discipline, department chief Ayut Sinthoppan revealed on Tuesday.

Victorian prisoners get unfair sentence reductions as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, Opposition says Posted SatSaturday 30 updated SunSunday 31 JanJanuary 2021 at 1:56am The Opposition's David Southwick condemned the double standard of giving prisoners sentence reductions while Victorians struggled as well. ( Share Print text only Cancel Some prisoners in Victorian jails have had almost a month shaved off their sentences due to the restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, giving them an effective "get out of jail free card", the State Opposition says. Key points: On average ...