The program, in the prison's Advanced Welding Training Centre, involves training on a standard welding booth, as well as on an augmented reality welding machine.

The prison also has the only dedicated correctional facility dog in Australia. Stella lives in the community, but goes to the jail every day, working with psychologists to support prisoners at risk.

But once he's inside the 40-bed hospital ward at Victoria's Port Phillip Prison, Dr Boughey's focus is on those preparing to die. "As a person going there for the first time, you might find it a ...

Imprisonment rates in Australia are currently the highest they have been in a century, despite a significant fall in crime, and the Productivity Commission is stepping in to determine why.

Australia's ageing prison population. The number of Australian prisoners aged 45 and over increased by 79 per cent between 2009 and 2019, according to federal government data. ...

But when New York, New Jersey and California reduced their prison populations by some 25% in recent years, their crime rates generally declined at a faster pace than the national average.