Tasmania's Supreme Court is under strain and the state's prisons are so overcrowded that inmates are double and triple bunked in cells that are too small, according to reports tabled in Parliament.

Five prisoners have died by suicide in Hobart's Risdon Prison in the past decade, with Robert Harold Gerard among them. A coroner hears Gerard missed a psychiatric assessment weeks earlier because ...

Twenty prisoners were involved in the standoff, which began Saturday when inmates occupied part of Risdon Prison on the southern island state of Tasmania, complaining about conditions in the aging ...

Fix Risdon Prison staffing crisis or resign, corrections minister told The state government will hold talks with prison union reps this week in a bid to find solutions to continuing staff ...

Right to Information documents show Tasmania's Risdon Prison site was in lockdown more than 6,000 times last year.

Despite its relatively short history, Tasmania's Risdon Prison has become one of Australia's most notorious jails. Not only is it known for housing many infamous inmates, including Port Arthur ...

A 35-year-old prison escapee has been arrested after leading police on a wild car chase throughout the suburbs of Bridgewater.

SOME Risdon Prison inmates are being kept in solitary confinement despite this being deemed a breach of internationally-recognised human rights conventions.

Sad life of ‘Prisoner X’ revealed after he is set free AN EXPERT witness has described what life was like inside Tasmania’s notorious Risdon Prison for the man treated worse than Martin Bryant.

Inmates at Risdon Prison have sensationally claimed that they are kept locked in their cells for more than half the year, describing the situation as “beyond a joke”.