Recent reporting of alleged misconduct at the AMC shows the need for a root-and-branch inquiry to determine if the allegations are a campaign of nasty rumour mongering or are well founded, writes HUGH SELBY.
"Red flag after red flag has been raised in warning of the inexorable decline of the AMC and its current status as almost certainly the worst performing prison in Australia," writes columnist JON STANHOPE.
Social justice advocate JANINE HASKINS says the disparity between the rhetoric of AMC's senior officials and the "reality of what's actually occurring" is so stark that she's begun working to establish an expert advisory group.
The absence of ministers Gentleman and Davidson is the opportunity for the returned government to appoint a minister who can listen and absorb the evidence, and who has the courage to act on that evidence, says lawyer ANDREW FRASER.
"There should be a public inquiry, not just into the mistreatment of whistleblower David McBride, but also into serious allegations about the inhumane conditions other inmates face at the AMC," says letter writer ANDREW WILLIAM HOPKINS.
A 27-year-old man has been charged with family violence offences police allege he committed while remanded in the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC).
Three people have been arrested since August for attempting to smuggle drugs and contraband into the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC).
"The Alexander Maconochie Centre is, if not the worst performing prison in Australia, certainly among the worst," writes political columnist JON STANHOPE.
“It’s concerning that neither the current or previous corrections ministers, or for that matter the Chief Minister, has responded to allegations of drug use by prison officers and fraternisation with female ex-detainees,” says JON STANHOPE.
A total of 50 detainees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre have contracted COVID-19, the Justice and Community Safety Directorate confirmed today (May 19).
Allegedly "drunk" prisoners at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) lit a fire in the prison that caused up to $3.7 million in damages in May last year, a Critical Incident Review has found.
A new government report has identified significant staffing and culture issues inside the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC).
A PRISONER was found dead in a cell last night (February 1) at the Alexander Maconochie Centre. He is believed to have hanged himself
Shadow corrections minister Elizabeth Kikkert will today (November 25) introduce an amendment bill to prevent people using drones to deliver contraband into the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC).
ABORIGINAL woman Keira Brown has applied to the Supreme Court for a declaration that her human right to have an Aboriginal Health Assessment has been breached while in detention at the Alexander Maconochie Centre.
"Left hanging by its silence is how the government proposes to respond to the fact that two laws, the Corrections Management Act and the Human Rights Act, have been breached," writes JON STANHOPE.
CANBERRA Liberals are calling for a full review into the Alexander Maconochie Centre after an inmate was mistakenly…
IN the last year more than 700 items have been seized by corrections officers at the…
A NUMBER of women at the Alexander Maconochie Centre have been placed out of the women's…
