A FIRE at Perth's maximum-security Casuarina Prison that caused about $60,000 damage has been put down to spontaneous combustion. A spokeswoman for the Fire and Emergency Services Authority said 11 ...

Six guards have been injured – one officer suffering a broken foot – during a violent riot at a Perth prison housing youth detainees. The juvenile detainees were being held in the Unit 18 youth centre ...

A West Australian District Court judge has heard "widespread" offending of men charged with domestic violence offences calling their victims from a Kimberley prison. It comes as three men have been ...

A 16-year-old Aboriginal youth, Cleveland Dodd, died on October 19 in Western Australia, after allegedly suffering fatal self-harm a week earlier while detained in Perth’s adult maximum-security ...

Warning: This story carries the name and image of a deceased Indigenous person. Everything must be done to ensure another child doesn’t die in youth detention, a coroner has told an inquest for an ...

The lawyer for a Western Australian man who claims to have been gang raped in prison by a convicted serial killer has urged police to reopen their investigation into the case. A former remand prisoner ...