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Characteristics that would come to define Mau Mau camps – neglect, forced labour and ill-health – were ingrained long before 1952.
Allegheny County is pouring millions into a new juvenile detention facility, even as evidence mounts that alternatives to detention are more helpful.
District courts have dismissed the administration’s efforts to detain virtually all undocumented immigrants without a bond hearing while they await deportation proceedings.
Habeas corpus – a Latin phrase meaning ‘you shall have the body’ – protects any person, whether citizen or not, from being illegally confined. It’s a crucial element of US law.
Harsh punishments may stop students feeling valued at their school.
Using tea bags, mop strands and other camp detritus, detainees used art as a way of escape at the detention center.
Even we were surprised at the levels of mental ill-health years after being released into the community.
Justice has finally prevailed as wrongfully imprisoned journalists are freed. But what does this complicated deal mean for future hostage diplomacy?
The government will head back to the High Court next month for another immigration case. If it loses, there could be wide-ranging consequences.
The release of more than 140 ex-detainees from immigration detention has prompted a panicked government response. So, what does the legislation say, and what happens now?
New preventative detention legislation will be brought into the Senate as an amendment. The changes will allow the preventative detention of those who are considered a terrorist risk.
This week, the High Court made an order which overturns the laws on which much of Australia’s immigration system is based. What happens to the law, and those most affected by it, now?
The overturning of almost 20 years of legal precedent allowing indefinite detention is a watershed moment. But stateless people in Australia have few rights and little say over their futures.
Convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika yesterday won the right to remain an Australian citizen. So will he go free? And what does this mean for national security?
US immigration policies have not deterred migration, but they have made the process longer and more difficult for migrants.
Ghana needs a more effective approach to juvenile justice reform that considers the long-term impact of detention on youth offenders.
UK law says that detention should only be used when deportation is imminent.
The re-introduction of an immigration detention bill could bring Australia into compliance with international human rights law.
The perpetrator of Friday’s terror attack in Auckland spent time in prison for sharing objectionable ISIS material, but under New Zealand’s criminal law he couldn’t be detained for planning an attack.
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Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
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Dean of Law, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Professor of Law, University of Bradford
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Director, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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