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Private prison plan slammed as inmate numbers balloon

With a territory's prison system bursting at the seams, critics argue that plans for a new privately operated facility amounts to admission of defeat on crime.

AAP · Aug 17

Pepper spray trial slammed after use in nightclub brawl

A trial of the public sale of pepper spray is under fire after the eye irritant was used in two incidents at the same nightclub.

AAP · Sep 30, 2025

Children set to leave Don Dale amid jail overcrowding

The Northern Territory Government is close to opening a new youth detention facility as the region continues to battle overcrowding in jails.

AAP · Oct 31, 2024

Concerns for Alice Springs prison officers' mental health as report reveals impact of staffing crisis

With record inmate numbers and an exhausted workforce, staff at this outback prison say they feel unsafe, overworked and undervalued.

ABC News · Dec 22, 2022

Corrections officers deployed from Darwin to Alice Springs amid crippling staff shortages

The workers' union says there has been a mass exodus of officers from the Alice Springs Correctional Centre as it struggles with staffing.

ABC News · Nov 30, 2022

Barkly Regional Council accused of mismanagement as multiple staff leave 'toxic' workplace

A union says it is "deeply concerned" by bullying allegations at a remote Northern Territory council, but the Mayor and chief executive say the complaints are by a "small group of disgruntled ex-employees".

ABC News · Sep 22, 2022

NT public sector protests over pay freeze

About a thousand public sector workers in the Northern Territory have gathered to protest the territory government's four-year pay freeze.

AAP · Aug 31, 2022

Renewed calls to revoke Northern Territory's mandatory sentencing following power outages inside Darwin's prison

Ongoing power outages and concerns over conditions inside Darwin's only adult prison mean the "community is at greater risk of continued crime", according to the Criminal Lawyers Association of the Northern Territory.

ABC News · Aug 14, 2022

More strike action for NT prisons

The United Workers Union says prison guards in Alice Springs will walk off the job on Saturday in further industrial action over the four-year pay freeze.

AAP · Jul 22, 2022

Darwin prison guards strike over wages

About 60 corrections officers have walked off the job in Darwin over the Northern Territory government's public sector pay freeze, a union says.

AAP · Jul 18, 2022