Back in 1983, 25-year-old Saeed Dezfouli fled Iran and found asylum in Australia. Today he is a prisoner and a patient in Sydney’s Long Bay jail where he is involuntarily injected with anti-psychotic medication every fortnight.
Prisoners
Essay: Zimbabwe’s prisons are death traps
Zimbabwe's prisoners are suffering untold horrors in Zimbabwe's jails, writes the Sokwanele newletter from Harare.
GEO joins NSW privatised jail race
John Robertson is following in the former Treasurer’s footsteps by implementing the private management of jails in flagrant opposition to NSW Labor Party policy, writes Alex Mitchell.
Is immigration detention worse than prison?
Another remarkable development yesterday in the sad case of Dr Mohamed Haneef, when his legal advisers opted not to post bail. The obvious conclusion is that immigration detention is regarded as worse than prison, writes Charles Richardson.
