OFFICERS guarding WA's teen detainees want them to be kept in an adult jail even longer, after more cells were wrecked over the weekend. Charges may be laid against five juvenile offenders who ran ...

A devastated mother has wept while describing the fears she held for her son’s welfare weeks before he died in a maximum-security prison. Ricky Lee Jones-Cound, 22, died at the maximum-security Hakea ...

JUVENILES who caused extensive damage to Banksia Hill detention centre have been supplied with their own televisions at Hakea Prison. The Department of Corrective Services has tonight confirmed that ...

Natasha Ugle says ‘nothing has changed’ since her husband Wayne’s death in 2023, as a national report found 33 First Nations peoples died in custody last year ...

More than $20 million will be spent converting parts of a minimum security men's prison into units that can house women in an initiative expected to be announced in tomorrow's State Budget. Six months ...

THE last of the young offenders locked up in Hakea prison following a riot last January have been moved back to the repaired juvenile detention centre. On January 20, Banksia Hill's teen detainees ...

A long-serving prison officer has pleaded guilty to conspiring with his wife to supply a kilogram of methylamphetamine that was to be imported into Western Australia from Thailand. Leonard Keith ...

At least six prisoners made onto the roof of a Perth jail, reportedly in a protest over the Kumanjayi Walker case and prison conditions. At around 2pm Perth time, at least six prisoners were seen on ...

Juvenile inmates held at Hakea Prison because of the Banksia Hill detention centre riot trashed their cells on Saturday night for the second time in as many months. Five cells were damaged in an ...

A HAKEA Prison manager has been charged with unlawfully using a restricted-access computer by the Corruption and Crime Commission. The CCC alleges the 56-year-old woman unlawfully accessed a ...

A total of 73 adolescent prisoners were shifted in stages to Hakea Prison for adults after a riot at the Banksia Hill Detention Centre for minors on the evening of January 20. After months of tensions ...

CANNING VALE, Australia, April 15 (UPI) -- An Australian judge is demanding the nation's corrections department explain conditions for juveniles being held at an adult prison, officials said. More ...