bail laws

The Guardian • bail laws

Behind bars in prison. Issue #2209

NSW extends youth bail crackdown

The Minns government announced on 15 September 2026, that it’s extending its 2024 established youth bail crackdown in regional New South Wales, which targets 14-...

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Issue #2115

EDITORIAL

No charges will be laid over Veronica Nelson’s death in custody in 2020. Nelson, a Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman, was...

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Incarceration, man behind bars. Issue #2139

Victoria: law as a weapon

Victorian Comrades beware – over the last year, the bourgeois state government has proposed new reforms to its criminal law system which could have destructive...

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Deaths in Custody rally in Melbourne. Issue #2137

‘Shameful’ – Victoria changes bail laws again

The Victorian government is set to implement alterations to bail laws less than a year after they were changed in the wake of a concerted...

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