Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Ashley

Sites flagged for troubled detention centre replacement

The Tasmanian government has identified two preferred sites near Hobart for facilities to replace the state's troubled Ashley Youth Detention Centre.

AAP · Mar 23, 2023

Ashley youth prison guards 'encouraged fights between inmates for sport', inquiry hears

A former detainee of Tasmania's youth detention centre urges the commission of inquiry into child sexual abuse to "tear the place down and start again", amid allegations one area of the prison was known as the "gladiator pit" due to fights.

ABC News · Aug 25, 2022

Ashley youth detainee alleges bribes offered if 'nice things' said about Tasmanian prison at abuse inquiry

A former detainee of Tasmania's youth detention centre tells an inquiry he was bribed by the current centre manager to say nice things about the facility — while the centre's manager says he was greeted with a "voodoo doll with pins through the heart" on his first day.

ABC News · Aug 23, 2022

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Female detainee tells of abuse, torment, while at Tasmania's Ashley youth prison

Stealing a bag of chips — that was the crime that would land Erin in Tasmania's Ashley youth prison, a place where she would be sexually abused, punished if she complained and taught that it was better just to shut up and accept it.

ABC News · Aug 22, 2022

The Ashley Youth Detention Centre is set for closure, so here's how the government will replace it

Revelations about a culture of violence and sexual abuse at Tasmania's only youth detention facility have shocked and appalled many, with one expert saying it should be "razed to the ground" — so what is Ashley and what is proposed to replace it?

ABC News · Aug 19, 2022

Brett never felt unsafe with his father, but he was taken away anyway — and it 'destroyed his life'

When Brett Robinson was taken away from his father as a child, he was told it was only for a few days — but it was much longer, and he says it "destroyed [his] life".

ABC News · Jun 17, 2022

Coverage From

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Ashley Youth Detention Centre

12 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.