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Crime boss Bassam Hamzy made a formal request to run mixed martial arts fights inside Supermax prison using some of the state’s worst criminals as fighters.

Sydney's Silverwater prison expanded with new technology to watch prisoners The prison population at Silverwater Correction Centre is about to swell with the opening of a new block which can house more than 400 new inmates. The expansion will also incorporate artificial intelligence, to keep an extra eye on prisoners at the facility in Western Sydney. There are $250 million dollars worth of facilities, exercise equipment medical cells and 440 new places for maximum security prisoners. Sydney's Silverwater jail has been expanded.(Nine) The prison has advanced new CCTV.(Nine) The expansion make...

Three Aboriginal deaths in custody in one week in Australia After days of official cover-ups, it has been revealed that three Aboriginal people recently died in custody in one week alone. The latest death occurred on March 7. An indigenous man died in Ravenhall Correctional Centre in the western suburbs of Melbourne, the Victorian state capital. On March 5, in New South Wales (NSW) a 44-year-old woman serving an eight-month sentence was found unresponsive in Sydney’s Silverwater Womens Correctional Centre. Her subsequent death followed that of a 35-year-old man who suffered from a pre-exist...

A 36-year-old Anaiwan Dunhutti man, Nathan Reynolds, died in 2018 gasping for air on a prison floor from an asthma attack after guards took an “unreasonably” long time to come to his aid. The NSW deputy coroner Elizabeth Ryan said the “confused, uncoordinated and unreasonably delayed” response by prison guards and health staff deprived Reynolds of “at least some chance” of survival. Reynolds’ family, who have waited almost three years for answers as to how and why he died – and, crucially, for somebody to be held responsible – heard the NSW deputy coroner give a brief summar...

The NSW deaths only came to light after Greens MLC David Shoebridge asked Corrective Services Commissioner Peter Severin at a NSW budget estimates on March 9. Severin defended authorities’ silence saying that it was “not appropriate” to advise the public of deaths without any detail and “cause a lot of anger, a lot of angst and a lot of grief”. Karly Warner, spokesperson for the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT (ALS), called for government accountability. “While identification of people who die in custody must be up to families, the government should be more transparent and timely...