Greens say frequency of lockdowns at Tasmania's Risdon Prison a 'breach of human rights'
Right to Information documents show Tasmania's Risdon Prison site was in lockdown more than 6,000 times last year.
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Coroner urges review of Tasmania's prisoner mental health services after another death by suicide in custody
Robert Harold Gerard died by suicide at Risdon Prison in May 2022 — two months after his last psychiatric assessment. He was in prison on remand for the alleged murder of Michael Hawkes and the ...
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Knife-violence perpetrator Kieran Scott Mitchell declared High Risk Offender by Supreme Court
A young Risdon Prison inmate with a long history of knife-related violence, and who once set his prison cell alight in protest over lockdown conditions, has been declared a High Risk Offender.